Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Adak in Alaska

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 87 km WSW of Adak, Alaska (54 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -177.696 West, latitude 51.449 North, depth = 11 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Adak in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 16:48:15 / 4:48 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 11 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/12/24 / 2024-12-09 16:48:15 / December 9, 2024 @ 4:48 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: at00so8k0f. Unique identifier: at00so8k0f.

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

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-177.696° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.449° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	11 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	87 km WSW 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 16:48:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-12-09 16:52:31	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	1	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	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.105826	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	197.99998416	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	at00so8k0f	Id of event.
Event Code	00so8k0f	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00so8k0f,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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