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Minor earthquake, 3.1 mag has occurred near Adak in Alaska


Earthquake location 50.8992S, -176.7111WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was reported 109 km S of Adak, Alaska (68 miles) on Tuesday. Id of earthquake: us10008v6e. Event ids that are associated: ak16014341, us10008v6e. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 09/05/17 / 2017-05-09 16:00:54 / May 9, 2017 @ 4:00 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 04:00:54 / 4:00 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -176.7111 West, latitude 50.8992 North, depth = 10 km.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-eight, in the last 10 days fourty-four, in the past 30 days fourty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventy-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 109 km S of Adak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -176.7111° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.8992° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 109km 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 2017-05-09 16:00:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-31 17:08:13 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -720 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 148 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.923 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.27 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 218 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10008v6e Id of event.
Event Code 10008v6e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak16014341,us10008v6e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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