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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Adak in Alaska


Earthquake location 50.9618S, -177.2787WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 110 km SSW of Adak, Alaska (68 miles) on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: ak024fuv6csb, us7000nyay. Unique identifier: us7000nyay. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/12/24 / 2024-12-10 18:08:46 / December 10, 2024 @ 6:08 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -177.2787 West, latitude 50.9618 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 18:08:46 / 6:08 pm (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-two, 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 twenty-seven 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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 110 km SSW of Adak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.2787° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.9618° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 110 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 18:08:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-16 17:33:17 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 188 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.885 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.6 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 246 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 us7000nyay Id of event.
Event Code 7000nyay An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak024fuv6csb,us7000nyay, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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