Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Adak in Alaska

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 91 km SSE of Adak, Alaska (57 miles) on Thursday. Unique identifier: at00step5t. Ids that are associated to the event: at00step5t, ak0253mqidsj. Exact location, longitude -176.179° West, latitude 51.106° North, depth = 17 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Adak in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 05:13:05 / 5:13 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17 km (11 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/03/25 / 2025-03-20 05:13:05 / March 20, 2025 @ 5:13 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days three hundred and thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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 SSE of Adak, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-176.179° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.106° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	17 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	91 km SSE 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	2025-03-20 05:13:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-20 05:18:36	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	3.705	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	432	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,at,ak,	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	0.9046035	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.92 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	212.399983008	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00step5t	Id of event.
Event Code	00step5t	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00step5t,ak0253mqidsj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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