Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Adak in Alaska

Posted by admin on December 12, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.0226S, -177.4835WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 111 km SSW of Adak, Alaska (69 miles) on Monday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/12/24 / 2024-12-09 16:33:17 / December 9, 2024 @ 4:33 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 16.6 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -177.4835 West, latitude 51.0226 North, depth = 16.6 km. Id of earthquake: ak024ft6lfkh. Event ids that are associated: ak024ft6lfkh. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:33:17 / 4:33 pm (local time epicenter).

In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-three, in the last 10 days seventy-three, in the past 30 days seventy-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

Did you feel it?

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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 111 km SSW of Adak, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2024 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -177.4835° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.0226° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.6 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 111 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 2024-12-09 16:33:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-12-12 00:47:36 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 284 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak, 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 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 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 ak024ft6lfkh Id of event.
Event Code 024ft6lfkh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak024ft6lfkh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information

Information and facts about all earthquakes today. Earthquake news and analysis on current events, Plate Tectonics, Seismometers, quake prediction, environment, Tsunamis, Seismologists, Prediction, live now, videos, information, pictures and much more. Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today.

© 2026 Earthquakes today - Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today