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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Adak in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.0598S, -177.6049WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 112 km SW of Adak, Alaska (70 miles) on Monday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/12/24 / 2024-12-09 16:51:35 / December 9, 2024 @ 4:51 pm. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:51:35 / 4:51 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 27.657 km (17 miles). Exact location, longitude -177.6049° West, latitude 51.0598° North, depth = 27.657 km. Id of earthquake: us7000ny1a. Event ids that are associated: ak024ft6pbsd, us7000ny1a.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and thirty-seven, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and fourty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 112 km SW of Adak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.6049° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.0598° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.657 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 112 km SW 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 16:51:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-16 17:44:31 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 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 178 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.721 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 243 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 us7000ny1a Id of event.
Event Code 7000ny1a An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak024ft6pbsd,us7000ny1a, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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