Minor earthquake 3.2 mag, 129 km SSW of Adak, Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 129 km SSW of Adak, Alaska (80 miles) on Monday. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:43:29 / 1:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/12/24 / 2024-12-09 01:43:29 / December 9, 2024 @ 1:43 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ak024fsxq3jf, us7000nyl3. Unique identifier: us7000nyl3. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -177.5545° West, 50.8656° North.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and eighty-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 129 km SSW of Adak, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-177.5545° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	50.8656° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	129 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 01:43:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-01 22:32:07	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	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.917	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	244	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	us7000nyl3	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nyl3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak024fsxq3jf,us7000nyl3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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