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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Sand Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.5073S, -159.6943WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 105 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (65 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/10/20 / 2020-10-21 12:32:41 / October 21, 2020 @ 12:32 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:32:41 / 12:32 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000cam4. Event ids that are associated: us6000cam4. The epicenter was at a depth of 26.43 km (16 miles). Exact location, longitude -159.6943° West, latitude 54.5073° North, depth = 26.43 km.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 105 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.6943° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.5073° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.43 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 105 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 2020-10-21 12:32:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-21 12:49:09 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 340 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 0.33 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 157 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000cam4 Id of event.
Event Code 6000cam4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000cam4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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