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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Adak in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.6083S, -178.997WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 165 km W of Adak, Alaska (103 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/07/24 / 2024-07-18 21:49:26 / July 18, 2024 @ 9:49 pm. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:49:26 / 9:49 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.997 West, latitude 51.6083 North, depth = 80.197 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 80.197 km (50 miles). Id of earthquake: us7000n03w. Event ids that are associated: us7000n03w, ak024974a2ly.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each 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: 165 km W of Adak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.997° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.6083° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 80.197 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 165 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 2024-07-18 21:49:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-18 22:01:34 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 3.172 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 ,us,ak, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.127 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 142 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 us7000n03w Id of event.
Event Code 7000n03w An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000n03w,ak024974a2ly, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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