Moderate earthquake, 5 mag strikes near Sand Point in Alaska

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 109 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (68 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -159.567° West, 54.514° North, depth 12 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Sand Point in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 26/08/24 / 2024-08-26 15:49:40 / August 26, 2024 @ 3:49 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: at00siu1as, ak024azio1hm. Unique identifier: at00siu1as. The temblor was detected at 15:49:40 / 3:49 pm (local time epicenter).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 109 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-159.567° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.514° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	109 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	2024-08-26 15:49:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-08-26 15:56:16	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	4.328	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	1	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	385	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,at,ak,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	32	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.9881468	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	201.599983872	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	at00siu1as	Id of event.
Event Code	00siu1as	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00siu1as,ak024azio1hm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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