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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Adak in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.8548S, 179.2661WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 282 km W of Adak, Alaska (175 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 152.023 km (94 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/08/24 / 2024-08-18 09:19:06 / August 18, 2024 @ 9:19 am. Exact location, longitude 179.2661° East, latitude 51.8548° North, depth = 152.023 km. The temblor was picked up at 09:19:06 / 9:19 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000nd3x. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nd3x.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 282 km W of Adak, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 179.2661° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.8548° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 152.023 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 282 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 2024-08-18 09:19:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-09-13 07:14:08 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 222 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 24 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.241 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 121 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 us7000nd3x Id of event.
Event Code 7000nd3x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nd3x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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