Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 27 km SW of Adak, Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 27 km SW of Adak, Alaska (17 miles) on Monday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/07/18 / 2018-07-17 00:35:18 / July 17, 2018 @ 12:35 am. Exact location of event, depth 65.24 km, -176.9642° West, 51.7157° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak19881055, us2000ga0k. Id of event: us2000ga0k. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 65.24 km (41 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:35:18 / 2:35 pm (local time epicenter).

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 seven, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days one 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 27 km SW of Adak, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-176.9642° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.7157° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	65.24 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km SW of Adak, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-07-17 00:35:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-04 04:03:08	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	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	178	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	0.175	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	201	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	us2000ga0k	Id of event.
Event Code	2000ga0k	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak19881055,us2000ga0k,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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