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Light earthquake 4 mag, 36 km S of Adak, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.5554S, -176.5934WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) strikes 36 km S of Adak, Alaska (22 miles) on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 51.8 km (32 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 14:23:56 / 2:23 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/05/17 / 2017-05-21 00:23:56 / May 21, 2017 @ 12:23 am. Exact location, longitude -176.5934° West, latitude 51.5554° North, depth = 51.8 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10008txq. Unique identifier: us10008txq.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 36 km S of Adak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -176.5934° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.5554° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36km S 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 2017-05-21 00:23:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-21 00:46:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -600 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 246 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 ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.332 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 184 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 us10008txq Id of event.
Event Code 10008txq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008txq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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