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Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 129 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska

Posted by admin on January 30, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.2621S, -159.7112WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 129 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (80 miles). The temblor was picked up at 08:40:46 / 8:40 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000d069. Ids that are associated to the event: ak02153m6ku, us7000d069. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.26 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -159.7112 West, latitude 54.2621 North, depth = 28.26 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/01/21 / 2021-01-03 08:40:46 / January 3, 2021 @ 8:40 am.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-three, in the last 10 days seventy-four, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-four and in the last 365 days one thousand, four hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 129 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.7112° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.2621° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 129 km SSE 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 2021-01-03 08:40:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-30 08:43:47 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 158 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 ,ak,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 0.574 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 212 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000d069 Id of event.
Event Code 7000d069 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak02153m6ku,us7000d069, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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