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Strong earthquake, 6.3 mag has occurred near Adak in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.123S, -177.428WA earthquake magnitude 6.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 100 km SSW of Adak, Alaska (62 miles). Unique identifier: at00so7b4y. Ids that are associated to the event: at00so7b4y. Exact location of event, depth 19 km, -177.428° West, 51.123° North. A tsunami warning has been issued near Adak in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 19 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/12/24 / 2024-12-09 00:38:58 / December 9, 2024 @ 12:38 am. The 6.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:38:58 / 12:38 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 100 km SSW of Adak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.428° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.123° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 100 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 00:38:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-09 00:43:40 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 611 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.8507046 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 208.799983296 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Mi The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00so7b4y Id of event.
Event Code 00so7b4y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00so7b4y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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