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Minor earthquake: M3.7 quake has struck near Sand Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.3412S, -159.6606WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was reported 123 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (76 miles) on Monday. Global time and date of event 18/01/21 / 2021-01-18 22:37:24 / January 18, 2021 @ 10:37 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us7000d3pz. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000d3pz. The temblor was picked up at 22:37:24 / 10:37 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -159.6606 West, latitude 54.3412 North, depth = 29.83 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 29.83 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days seventy-eight and in the last 365 days one thousand, four hundred and twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 123 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.6606° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.3412° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 123 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 2021-01-18 22:37:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-28 04:13:53 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 211 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 ,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 0.492 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 215 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 us7000d3pz Id of event.
Event Code 7000d3pz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000d3pz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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