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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 50 km SSE of Adak, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.4953S, -176.2385WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 50 km SSE of Adak, Alaska (31 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/07/24 / 2024-07-14 14:21:22 / July 14, 2024 @ 2:21 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -176.2385 West, latitude 51.4953 North, depth = 51.782 km. Unique identifier: us7000mz7a. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mz7a, ak02490dsmse. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:21:22 / 2:21 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 51.782 km (32 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 50 km SSE of Adak, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -176.2385° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.4953° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.782 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 50 km SSE 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 2024-07-14 14:21:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-14 14:35:43 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 2.632 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 312 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,ak, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.477 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 183 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 us7000mz7a Id of event.
Event Code 7000mz7a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mz7a,ak02490dsmse, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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