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Minor earthquake, 2.8 mag strikes near Adak in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.987S, -176.571WA minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 13 km NNE of Adak, Alaska (8 miles) on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/11/19 / 2019-11-26 16:33:44 / November 26, 2019 @ 4:33 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us70006fcq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak019f612nbq, us70006fcq. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 171.52 km (107 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -176.571 West, latitude 51.987 North, depth = 171.52 km. The temblor was detected at 06:33:44 / 6:33 am (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days fourty-two, in the past 30 days fourty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -176.571° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.987° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 171.52 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13km NNE 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 2019-11-26 16:33:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-12-09 20:52:46 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 121 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 0.126 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 166 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 us70006fcq Id of event.
Event Code 70006fcq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak019f612nbq,us70006fcq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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