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Minor earthquake 3.6 mag, 101 km ESE of Adak, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.5424S, -175.2662WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 101 km ESE of Adak, Alaska (63 miles). The temblor was detected at 18:13:14 / 6:13 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/12/20 / 2020-12-28 18:13:14 / December 28, 2020 @ 6:13 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: ak020gomvlmz, us6000d6sy. Unique identifier: us6000d6sy. Exact location of event, longitude -175.2662 West, latitude 51.5424 North, depth = 35 km.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 101 km ESE of Adak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -175.2662° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.5424° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 101 km ESE 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 2020-12-28 18:13:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-08 22:51:05 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 199 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 0.604 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 234 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 us6000d6sy Id of event.
Event Code 6000d6sy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020gomvlmz,us6000d6sy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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