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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Sand Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.5313S, -159.8859WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 97 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (60 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -159.8859 West, latitude 54.5313 North, depth = 17.55 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 17.55 km (11 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000cpu3. Id of event: us7000cpu3. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:42:39 / 5:42 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/12/20 / 2020-12-10 17:42:39 / December 10, 2020 @ 5:42 pm.

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days eighty-two and in the last 365 days one thousand, two hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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: 97 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 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.8859° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.5313° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 97 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 2020-12-10 17:42:39 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-10 19:08:46 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 259 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 0.346 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 206 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 us7000cpu3 Id of event.
Event Code 7000cpu3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cpu3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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