Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 75 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 75 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska (47 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/01/21 / 2021-01-27 15:30:53 / January 27, 2021 @ 3:30 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -159.5116 West, latitude 54.9622 North, depth = 35 km. The temblor was reported at 15:30:53 / 3:30 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000d3rc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000d3rc.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days sixty-one and in the last 365 days one thousand, four hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 75 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-159.5116° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.9622° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	75 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2021-01-27 15:30:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-01-27 21:50:07	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	188	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.139	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.85 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	132	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000d3rc	Id of event.
Event Code	7000d3rc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000d3rc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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