Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag was detected near Adak in Alaska

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was reported 69 km SSE of Adak, Alaska (43 miles) on Saturday. Exact location of event, depth 38 km, -176.231° West, 51.305° North. Unique identifier: at00stirae. Ids that are associated to the event: at00stirae, ak0253q46kf8. The 5.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:49:26 / 9:49 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 38 km (24 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/03/25 / 2025-03-22 09:49:26 / March 22, 2025 @ 9:49 am. A tsunami warning has been issued near Adak in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighteen, in the last 10 days fourty-four, in the past 30 days fourty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 69 km SSE of Adak, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-176.231° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.305° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	38 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	69 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	2025-03-22 09:49:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-22 09:54:36	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	3.558	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	449	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	40	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.7069741	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	205.199983584	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	at00stirae	Id of event.
Event Code	00stirae	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00stirae,ak0253q46kf8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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