Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Adak in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 114 km SSW of Adak, Alaska (71 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/12/24 / 2024-12-09 17:54:41 / December 9, 2024 @ 5:54 pm. The temblor was picked up at 17:54:41 / 5:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -177.4954 West, latitude 50.9985 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event id: us7000nxd4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000nxd4.

In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty, in the last 10 days fifty, in the past 30 days fifty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-177.4954° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	50.9985° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	114 km SSW 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	2024-12-09 17:54:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-09 18:14:48	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	178	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	9	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.882	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.3 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	223	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	us7000nxd4	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nxd4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nxd4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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