Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Adak in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 57 km SW of Adak, Alaska (35 miles) on Thursday. Exact location, longitude -177.1784° West, latitude 51.4803° North, depth = 44.033 km. The temblor was detected at 02:28:19 / 2:28 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 44.033 km (27 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/03/25 / 2025-03-06 02:28:19 / March 6, 2025 @ 2:28 am. Id of earthquake: us6000px5x. Event ids that are associated: ak0252zjah2f, us6000px5x.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 eighty-four, in the last 10 days eighty-six, in the past 30 days ninety-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 57 km SW of Adak, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-177.1784° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.4803° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	44.033 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	57 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	2025-03-06 02:28:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-26 23:29:44	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	1.997	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	222	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	45	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.284	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	193	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000px5x	Id of event.
Event Code	6000px5x	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak0252zjah2f,us6000px5x,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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