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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Sand Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.5078S, -159.7921WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 102 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (63 miles) on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/12/20 / 2020-12-08 07:24:38 / December 8, 2020 @ 7:24 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20.33 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us7000cp95. Ids that are associated to the event: ak020frdnc15, us7000cp95. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:24:38 / 7:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 20.33 km, -159.7921° West, 54.5078° North.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days ninety-two and in the last 365 days one thousand, two hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 102 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.7921° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.5078° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 102 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 2020-12-08 07:24:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-10 08:30:13 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 158 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 0.344 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 202 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 us7000cp95 Id of event.
Event Code 7000cp95 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020frdnc15,us7000cp95, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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