Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Adak in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 281 km W of Adak, Alaska (175 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 64.421 km (40 miles). The temblor was detected at 18:54:28 / 6:54 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/02/25 / 2025-02-24 18:54:28 / February 24, 2025 @ 6:54 pm. Id of earthquake: us6000pv8d. Event ids that are associated: ak0252j9lixj, us6000pv8d. Exact location of event, depth 64.421 km, 179.3384° East, 51.4811° North.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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.

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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. 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: 281 km W of Adak, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	179.3384° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.4811° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	64.421 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	281 km W 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	2025-02-24 18:54:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-28 15:02:00	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	37	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.105	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.38 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	120	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	us6000pv8d	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pv8d	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak0252j9lixj,us6000pv8d,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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