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Light earthquake: M4 quake has struck near Adak in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.5358S, -176.4236WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 41 km SSE of Adak, Alaska (25 miles) on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 02/03/20 / 2020-03-02 12:51:41 / March 2, 2020 @ 12:51 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 02:51:41 / 2:51 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ak0202uqrqo8, us60008b4e. Unique identifier: us60008b4e. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 48.27 km (30 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -176.4236° West, 51.5358° North, depth 48.27 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 41 km SSE of Adak, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -176.4236° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.5358° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 48.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km SSE 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 2020-03-02 12:51:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-03-27 07:52:35 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 246 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 0.325 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 141 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 us60008b4e Id of event.
Event Code 60008b4e An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0202uqrqo8,us60008b4e, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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