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Moderate earthquake 5.1 mag, 37 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska


Earthquake location 55.0037S, -160.374WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 37 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (23 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 45.45 km (28 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -160.374° West, 55.0037° North, depth 45.45 km. All ids that are associated to the event: at00qfbtkn, us6000bhbu. Unique identifier: us6000bhbu. The temblor was detected at 19:45:59 / 7:45 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/08/20 / 2020-08-19 19:45:59 / August 19, 2020 @ 7:45 pm. A tsunami warning has been issued near Sand Point in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 37 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -160.374° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 55.0037° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37 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 2020-08-19 19:45:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-19 20:00:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 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 400 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 ,at,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 0.351 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000bhbu Id of event.
Event Code 6000bhbu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00qfbtkn,us6000bhbu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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