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Minor earthquake 3.6 mag, 73 km ENE of Adak, Alaska


Earthquake location 52.2386S, -175.7416WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 73 km ENE of Adak, Alaska (45 miles) on Saturday. The epicenter was at a depth of 141.89 km (88 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -175.7416 West, latitude 52.2386 North, depth = 141.89 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0205p5p2w3, us70009cfa. Id of event: us70009cfa. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:13:42 / 7:13 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 03/05/20 / 2020-05-03 05:13:42 / May 3, 2020 @ 5:13 am UTC/GMT.

In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 73 km ENE of Adak, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -175.7416° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 52.2386° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 141.89 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73 km ENE 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 2020-05-03 05:13:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-29 09:02:23 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 199 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 0.244 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 117 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70009cfa Id of event.
Event Code 70009cfa An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0205p5p2w3,us70009cfa, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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