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Strong earthquake: M6.2 quake has struck near Adak in Alaska

Posted by admin on March 21, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.1778S, -176.1465WA earthquake magnitude 6.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 84 km SSE of Adak, Alaska (52 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Adak in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 25.967 km, -176.1465° West, 51.1778° North. All ids that are associated to the event: at00sthapk, us7000pllu, ak0253ojnad2. Unique identifier: us7000pllu. The temblor was picked up at 14:53:42 / 2:53 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/03/25 / 2025-03-21 14:53:42 / March 21, 2025 @ 2:53 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 25.967 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days thirty, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days three hundred and fifty-nine 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: 84 km SSE of Adak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -176.1465° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.1778° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.967 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 84 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 2025-03-21 14:53:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-03-21 15:05:25 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 3.846 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 591 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 ,at,us,ak, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 71 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.704 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000pllu Id of event.
Event Code 7000pllu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00sthapk,us7000pllu,ak0253ojnad2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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