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Minor earthquake: M3.8 quake has struck near Adak in Alaska


Earthquake location 50.772S, -178.4005WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) strikes 173 km SW of Adak, Alaska (107 miles) on Sunday. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -178.4005° West, 50.772° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/08/20 / 2020-08-02 13:58:52 / August 2, 2020 @ 1:58 pm. Event id: us6000b8cl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000b8cl. The temblor was picked up at 13:58:52 / 1:58 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 173 km SW of Adak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.4005° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.772° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 173 km SW 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 2020-08-02 13:58:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-08-02 14:45:36 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 222 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 ,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 1.335 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 237 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 us6000b8cl Id of event.
Event Code 6000b8cl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000b8cl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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