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Minor World Earthquakes Magnitude -3.9

Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Adak in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.0792S, -176.279WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 91 km SSE of Adak, Alaska (57 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 15.528 km (10 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/10/24 / 2024-10-01 06:33:44 / October 1, 2024 @ 6:33 am. All ids that are associated to the event: ak024cmwk7k9, us7000nhhu. Unique identifier: us7000nhhu. Exact location of event, depth 15.528 km, -176.279° West, 51.0792° North. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:33:44 / 6:33 am (local time epicenter).

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 eighteen, in the last 10 days twenty-two, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 91 km SSE of Adak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -176.279° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.0792° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.528 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91 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 2024-10-01 06:33:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-10-27 11:38:35 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 ,ak,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 39 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.788 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 213 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 us7000nhhu Id of event.
Event Code 7000nhhu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak024cmwk7k9,us7000nhhu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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