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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Adak in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.3415S, -175.5028WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 99 km SE of Adak, Alaska (62 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.66 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: ak019f2glpvo, us70006f4p. Unique identifier: us70006f4p. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -175.5028° West, 51.3415° North, depth 25.66 km. The temblor was detected at 12:55:43 / 12:55 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 24/11/19 / 2019-11-24 00:55:43 / November 24, 2019 @ 12:55 am UTC/GMT.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-nine, in the last 10 days thirty-five, in the past 30 days thirty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 99 km SE of Adak, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -175.5028° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.3415° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 25.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 99km SE 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 2019-11-24 00:55:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-04 04:06:05 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 312 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 0.696 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.37 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 319 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 us70006f4p Id of event.
Event Code 70006f4p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019f2glpvo,us70006f4p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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