Minor earthquake: M3.5 quake has struck near Adak in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 187 km W of Adak, Alaska (116 miles). The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:41:49 / 10:41 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 43.76 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -179.3453 West, latitude 51.7377 North, depth = 43.76 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/12/20 / 2020-12-09 10:41:49 / December 9, 2020 @ 10:41 am. All ids that are associated to the event: ak020ft32lzq, us7000cr00. Unique identifier: us7000cr00.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days twelve, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 187 km W of Adak, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-179.3453° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.7377° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	43.76 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	187 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	2020-12-09 10:41:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2021-01-07 12:50:42	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	188	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	1.658	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.63 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	313	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	us7000cr00	Id of event.
Event Code	7000cr00	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak020ft32lzq,us7000cr00,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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