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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Sand Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.5326S, -159.6206WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 105 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (65 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 22.81 km (14 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -159.6206 West, latitude 54.5326 North, depth = 22.81 km. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:44:23 / 9:44 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 21/10/20 / 2020-10-21 09:44:23 / October 21, 2020 @ 9:44 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us7000c6ze. Ids that are associated to the event: ak020dk15rkr, us7000c6ze.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and fourteen, in the last 10 days seven hundred and nine, in the past 30 days seven hundred and twenty-eight and in the last 365 days one thousand and thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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: 105 km SSE of Sand Point, 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 -159.6206° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.5326° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.81 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 09:44:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-15 11:33:49 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 0.299 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.58 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 mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000c6ze Id of event.
Event Code 7000c6ze An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020dk15rkr,us7000c6ze, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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