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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag was detected near Sand Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on August 26, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.8734S, -160.3469WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 52 km S of Sand Point, Alaska (32 miles) on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.66 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 21:39:43 / 9:39 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000bi3x. Ids that are associated to the event: ak020a0vw7mz, us6000bi3x. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -160.3469 West, latitude 54.8734 North, depth = 28.66 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/08/20 / 2020-08-05 21:39:43 / August 5, 2020 @ 9:39 pm UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty, in the last 10 days one hundred, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 52 km S of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -160.3469° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.8734° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 52 km S 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 2020-08-05 21:39:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-26 02:34:44 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 129 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 0.44 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.39 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 189 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 us6000bi3x Id of event.
Event Code 6000bi3x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020a0vw7mz,us6000bi3x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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