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Minor World Earthquakes Magnitude -3.9

Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Alaska


Earthquake location 54.3643S, -159.6443WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, south of Alaska (0 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 27.22 km (17 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -159.6443° West, 54.3643° North, depth 27.22 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/10/20 / 2020-10-20 19:02:45 / October 20, 2020 @ 7:02 pm. The temblor was reported at 19:02:45 / 7:02 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ak020dijbstv, us7000c8ac. Unique identifier: us7000c8ac.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been six hundred and fourty-three, in the last 10 days six hundred and fourty-four, in the past 30 days six hundred and sixty-three and in the last 365 days nine hundred and fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: south of Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.6443° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.3643° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.22 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place south of 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 19:02:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-12 20:06:31 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 188 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 0.468 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 204 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 us7000c8ac Id of event.
Event Code 7000c8ac An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020dijbstv,us7000c8ac, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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