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Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag has occurred near Sand Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.2886S, -159.6651WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 128 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (80 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/10/20 / 2020-10-20 04:07:07 / October 20, 2020 @ 4:07 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000c9u7. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000c9u7, ak020diafbfb. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.78 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 04:07:07 / 4:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -159.6651° West, 54.2886° North, depth 13.78 km.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty, in the last 10 days fifty, in the past 30 days sixty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 128 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.6651° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.2886° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 128 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 2020-10-20 04:07:07 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-20 04:32:17 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 3.757 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 482 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,ak, 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 0.545 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us6000c9u7 Id of event.
Event Code 6000c9u7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c9u7,ak020diafbfb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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