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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Sand Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.6684S, -159.6536WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 91 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska (57 miles) on Thursday. The epicenter was at a depth of 17.6 km (11 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak021z2ftb7. Id of event: ak021z2ftb7. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/01/21 / 2021-01-21 20:41:32 / January 21, 2021 @ 8:41 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 20:41:32 / 8:41 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -159.6536 West, latitude 54.6684 North, depth = 17.6 km.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days thirty, in the past 30 days ninety and in the last 365 days one thousand, four hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 91 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.6536° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.6684° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91 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 2021-01-21 20:41:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-03 18:20:23 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 ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak, 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 ak021z2ftb7 Id of event.
Event Code 021z2ftb7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak021z2ftb7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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