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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Adak in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.7415S, -176.726WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 16 km SSW of Adak, Alaska (10 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 176.1 km (109 miles). The temblor was detected at 00:31:04 / 12:31 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 09/12/24 / 2024-12-09 00:31:04 / December 9, 2024 @ 12:31 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: ak024fsx1wgx. Unique identifier: ak024fsx1wgx. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 176.1 km, -176.726° West, 51.7415° North.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 16 km SSW of Adak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -176.726° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.7415° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 176.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16 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 00:31:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-09 01:00:26 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 3.482 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 automatic 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 416 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.03 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 ak024fsx1wgx Id of event.
Event Code 024fsx1wgx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak024fsx1wgx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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