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Minor earthquake 3.5 mag, 210 km WSW of Adak, Alaska


Earthquake location 51.1321S, -179.426WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 210 km WSW of Adak, Alaska (130 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -179.426 West, latitude 51.1321 North, depth = 35 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/01/21 / 2021-01-06 11:36:43 / January 6, 2021 @ 11:36 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Unique identifier: us7000d0qi. Ids that are associated to the event: ak021a3znzo, us7000d0qi. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:36:43 / 11:36 am (local time epicenter).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 210 km WSW of Adak, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -179.426° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.1321° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 210 km WSW 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 2021-01-06 11:36:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-01-31 09:03:04 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 188 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 0.57 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 223 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 us7000d0qi Id of event.
Event Code 7000d0qi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak021a3znzo,us7000d0qi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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