Minor earthquake: M3.9 quake has struck near Sand Point in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 149 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (93 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/01/21 / 2021-01-07 06:22:57 / January 7, 2021 @ 6:22 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.57 km (12 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -159.6498 West, latitude 54.0888 North, depth = 19.57 km. Unique identifier: us6000d6hy. Ids that are associated to the event: ak021bogve1, us6000d6hy. The temblor was detected at 06:22:57 / 6:22 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-seven, in the last 10 days seventy-four, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-five and in the last 365 days one thousand, three hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 149 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-159.6498° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.0888° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	19.57 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	149 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	2021-01-07 06:22:57	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-02-03 08:23:57	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	234	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	0.744	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.62 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	163	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	us6000d6hy	Id of event.
Event Code	6000d6hy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak021bogve1,us6000d6hy,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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