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Minor earthquake 3.6 mag, 33 km SW of Adak, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.698S, -177.0437WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 33 km SW of Adak, Alaska (21 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 69.33 km (43 miles). Event id: us20009mxr. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20009mxr. The temblor was detected at 19:36:35 / 7:36 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/06/17 / 2017-06-10 05:36:35 / June 10, 2017 @ 5:36 am. Exact location of earthquake, -177.0437° West, 51.698° North, depth 69.33 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days seven hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 33 km SW of Adak, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.0437° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.698° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 69.33 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33km 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 2017-06-10 05:36:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-06-25 07:41:27 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 199 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 0.168 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 191 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 us20009mxr Id of event.
Event Code 20009mxr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009mxr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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