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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 122 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska


Earthquake location 54.3624S, -159.6192WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 122 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (76 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 28.48 km (18 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 29/10/20 / 2020-10-29 16:32:28 / October 29, 2020 @ 4:32 pm. The temblor was detected at 16:32:28 / 4:32 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, -159.6192° West, 54.3624° North, depth 28.48 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000c7k6. Id of event: us7000c7k6.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days two hundred and eighty-four, in the past 30 days two hundred and ninety-three and in the last 365 days five hundred and ninety-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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: 122 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.6192° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.3624° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 122 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 2020-10-29 16:32:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-29 17:49:04 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 259 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 0.469 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 105 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000c7k6 Id of event.
Event Code 7000c7k6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000c7k6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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