Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Sand Point in Alaska

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 89 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska (55 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/12/20 / 2020-12-19 00:10:43 / December 19, 2020 @ 12:10 am. Id of earthquake: at00qlk8hv. Event ids that are associated: at00qlk8hv. A tsunami warning has been issued near Sand Point in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -159.695° West, 54.676° North, depth 42 km. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:10:43 / 12:10 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 42 km (26 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days eighty-nine and in the last 365 days one thousand, three hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 89 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-159.695° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.676° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	42 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	89 km SE 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	2020-12-19 00:10:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-12-19 00:17:20	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	1	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	432	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	59	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.8111787	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	165.599986752	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	at00qlk8hv	Id of event.
Event Code	00qlk8hv	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00qlk8hv,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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