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Minor earthquake, 2.9 mag has occurred near Adak in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.596S, -175.9938WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 55 km SE of Adak, Alaska (34 miles) on Sunday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/05/20 / 2020-05-11 01:39:02 / May 11, 2020 @ 1:39 am. Exact location of event, longitude -175.9938 West, latitude 51.596 North, depth = 57.94 km. The temblor was picked up at 13:39:02 / 1:39 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 57.94 km (36 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ak02062brlzf, us70009nzx. Unique identifier: us70009nzx.

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 55 km SE of Adak, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -175.9938° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.596° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 57.94 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 55km 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 2020-05-11 01:39:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-24 22:36:42 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 129 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 0.369 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.47 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 207 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 us70009nzx Id of event.
Event Code 70009nzx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak02062brlzf,us70009nzx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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