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Minor earthquake 3.3 mag, 261 km W of Adak, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.6439S, 179.5901WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 261 km W of Adak, Alaska (162 miles) on Saturday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 90.51 km (56 miles). The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:38:52 / 10:38 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000bce4. Ids that are associated to the event: ak0209iiffkb, us6000bce4. Exact location, longitude 179.5901° East, latitude 51.6439° North, depth = 90.51 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/07/20 / 2020-07-25 10:38:52 / July 25, 2020 @ 10:38 am.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 261 km W of Adak, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.5901° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.6439° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 90.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 261 km W 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 2020-07-25 10:38:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-21 12:18:03 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 168 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 0.256 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.23 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 120 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 us6000bce4 Id of event.
Event Code 6000bce4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0209iiffkb,us6000bce4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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