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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Adak in Alaska


Earthquake location 50.8315S, -177.3137WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 125 km SSW of Adak, Alaska (78 miles) on Tuesday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/12/24 / 2024-12-10 21:13:38 / December 10, 2024 @ 9:13 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: ak024fuwzpjt, us7000nyas. Unique identifier: us7000nyas. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:13:38 / 9:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -177.3137 West, latitude 50.8315 North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days eighty, in the past 30 days eighty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 125 km SSW of Adak, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.3137° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.8315° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 125 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 21:13:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-13 02:02:28 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 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 158 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,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.933 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 248 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 us7000nyas Id of event.
Event Code 7000nyas An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak024fuwzpjt,us7000nyas, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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