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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Sand Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on February 27, 2021 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.943S, -159.4514WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 79 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska (49 miles) on Saturday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:13:07 / 10:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -159.4514° West, 54.943° North, depth 21.29 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.29 km (13 miles). Unique identifier: us7000de8d. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000de8d. Global time and date of event 27/02/21 / 2021-02-27 22:13:07 / February 27, 2021 @ 10:13 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days one thousand, four hundred and eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 79 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.4514° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.943° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79 km ESE 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 2021-02-27 22:13:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-27 22:29:36 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 284 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 0.137 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 109 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000de8d Id of event.
Event Code 7000de8d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000de8d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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