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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Adak in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.7099S, -176.9862WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 30 km SW of Adak, Alaska (19 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ak020c7xr57g, us6000c6bw. Unique identifier: us6000c6bw. Exact location, longitude -176.9862° West, latitude 51.7099° North, depth = 87.79 km. Global time and date of event 22/09/20 / 2020-09-22 01:34:50 / September 22, 2020 @ 1:34 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 01:34:50 / 1:34 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 87.79 km (55 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 30 km SW of Adak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -176.9862° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.7099° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 87.79 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30 km 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 2020-09-22 01:34:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-10-08 00:35:41 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 0.163 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 190 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 us6000c6bw Id of event.
Event Code 6000c6bw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020c7xr57g,us6000c6bw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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