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Minor World Earthquakes Magnitude -3.9

Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag was detected near Sand Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.6361S, -160.2018WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 190 km S of Sand Point, Alaska (118 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:55:54 / 2:55 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -160.2018° West, latitude 53.6361° North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/10/20 / 2020-10-26 02:55:54 / October 26, 2020 @ 2:55 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us7000c80u. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000c80u.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-eight, in the last 10 days three hundred and ninety-seven, in the past 30 days four hundred and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 190 km S of Sand Point, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -160.2018° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.6361° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 190 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 2020-10-26 02:55:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-03 23:09:11 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 234 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 1.25 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 188 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 us7000c80u Id of event.
Event Code 7000c80u An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000c80u, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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