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Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Adak in Alaska


Earthquake location 50.5187S, -176.1639WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 154 km SSE of Adak, Alaska (96 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak020cyqcprf, us6000c8nr. Id of event: us6000c8nr. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 30.35 km (19 miles). The temblor was picked up at 21:50:11 / 9:50 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/10/20 / 2020-10-08 21:50:11 / October 8, 2020 @ 9:50 pm. Exact location of event, depth 30.35 km, -176.1639° West, 50.5187° North.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 154 km SSE of Adak, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -176.1639° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 50.5187° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 154 km SSE 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 2020-10-08 21:50:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-01 04:54:11 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 158 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 1.352 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.41 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 253 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 us6000c8nr Id of event.
Event Code 6000c8nr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak020cyqcprf,us6000c8nr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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