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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Adak in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.1056S, -177.0888WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 91 km SSW of Adak, Alaska (57 miles). The temblor was detected at 06:56:23 / 6:56 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 40.85 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/12/24 / 2024-12-13 06:56:23 / December 13, 2024 @ 6:56 am. Exact location of event, depth 40.85 km, -177.0888° West, 51.1056° North. Id of earthquake: us7000nycy. Event ids that are associated: us7000nycy, ak024fzmxf3w. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eighty-one, in the past 30 days eighty-six and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. 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: 91 km SSW of Adak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.0888° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.1056° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91 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 2024-12-13 06:56:23 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-13 07:16:20 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 2.834 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 369 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,ak, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 67 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.749 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 131 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 us7000nycy Id of event.
Event Code 7000nycy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nycy,ak024fzmxf3w, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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