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Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag was detected near Adak in Alaska


Earthquake location 51.3662S, -177.0853WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 64 km SSW of Adak, Alaska (40 miles) on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: ak02079e5w0l, us6000aadr. Unique identifier: us6000aadr. The 3.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:46:12 / 5:46 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 40.85 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/06/20 / 2020-06-06 05:46:12 / June 6, 2020 @ 5:46 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -177.0853 West, latitude 51.3662 North, depth = 40.85 km.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 64 km SSW of Adak, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.0853° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.3662° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.85 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 64 km SSW 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 2020-06-06 05:46:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-21 05:24:31 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 211 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 0.406 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.36 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 mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000aadr Id of event.
Event Code 6000aadr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak02079e5w0l,us6000aadr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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