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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Adak in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.2835S, -177.0262WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 71 km SSW of Adak, Alaska (44 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -177.0262 West, latitude 51.2835 North, depth = 35 km. Global time and date of event 16/01/19 / 2019-01-16 17:47:24 / January 16, 2019 @ 5:47 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 05:47:24 / 5:47 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000j4lm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak019qr01sf, us2000j4lm.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 71 km SSW of Adak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.0262° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.2835° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 71km SSW 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 2019-01-16 17:47:24 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-16 22:18:50 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 168 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 0.495 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 247 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 us2000j4lm Id of event.
Event Code 2000j4lm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019qr01sf,us2000j4lm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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