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Moderate earthquake: M5.8 quake has struck near Adak in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.1125S, -177.2133WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 93 km SSW of Adak, Alaska (58 miles). The temblor was reported at 18:04:35 / 6:04 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Adak in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000nxnc. Ids that are associated to the event: ak024fuv5gpt, at00soai7j, us7000nxnc. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/12/24 / 2024-12-10 18:04:35 / December 10, 2024 @ 6:04 pm. Exact location, longitude -177.2133° West, latitude 51.1125° North, depth = 28.583 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.583 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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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: 93 km SSW of Adak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.2133° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.1125° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.583 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 93 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 2024-12-10 18:04:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-10 18:19:08 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 6.931 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 518 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,at,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 124 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.65 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.09 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000nxnc Id of event.
Event Code 7000nxnc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak024fuv5gpt,at00soai7j,us7000nxnc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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