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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Sand Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.6439S, -159.7445WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 90 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (56 miles). The temblor was picked up at 00:10:41 / 12:10 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/12/20 / 2020-12-19 00:10:41 / December 19, 2020 @ 12:10 am. Id of earthquake: us7000csam. Event ids that are associated: at00qlk8hv, ak020g9gb39x, us7000csam. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -159.7445 West, latitude 54.6439 North, depth = 32.67 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 32.67 km (20 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Sand Point in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fifteen, 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 was reported 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 90 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.7445° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.6439° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90 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 2020-12-19 00:10:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-19 00:30:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 385 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 ,at,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 0.207 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 123 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000csam Id of event.
Event Code 7000csam An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00qlk8hv,ak020g9gb39x,us7000csam, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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