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Minor earthquake: M3.7 quake has struck near Adak in Alaska


Earthquake location 50.8721S, -179.8678WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 251 km WSW of Adak, Alaska (156 miles) on Sunday. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:56:10 / 12:56 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000d80w. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000d80w. Global time and date of event 03/01/21 / 2021-01-03 12:56:10 / January 3, 2021 @ 12:56 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -179.8678 West, latitude 50.8721 North, depth = 10 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city 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: 251 km WSW of Adak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.8678° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.8721° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 251 km WSW 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 2021-01-03 12:56:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-17 12:57:58 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 211 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 ,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 2.236 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 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 mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000d80w Id of event.
Event Code 6000d80w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000d80w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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