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Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Sand Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.3987S, -159.6886WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 116 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (72 miles). Event id: us6000di0x. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0211fcsl8p, us6000di0x. Exact location of event, longitude -159.6886 West, latitude 54.3987 North, depth = 24.36 km. Global time and date of event 31/01/21 / 2021-01-31 05:26:44 / January 31, 2021 @ 5:26 am UTC/GMT. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:26:44 / 5:26 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 24.36 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days thirty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and six and in the last 365 days one thousand, four hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 116 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.6886° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.3987° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 116 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 2021-01-31 05:26:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-25 12:01:19 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 168 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 0.437 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 200 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 us6000di0x Id of event.
Event Code 6000di0x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0211fcsl8p,us6000di0x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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