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Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag was detected near Sand Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.4673S, -159.7101WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 109 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (68 miles). Event id: us7000ccde. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak020du1xe2p, us7000ccde. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/10/20 / 2020-10-27 15:39:31 / October 27, 2020 @ 3:39 pm. The temblor was reported at 15:39:31 / 3:39 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -159.7101 West, latitude 54.4673 North, depth = 21.38 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 21.38 km (13 miles).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 109 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 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.7101° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.4673° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 109 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 2020-10-27 15:39:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-24 16:34:50 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 199 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 0.371 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.43 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 207 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 us7000ccde Id of event.
Event Code 7000ccde An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020du1xe2p,us7000ccde, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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