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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Adak in Alaska

Posted by admin on April 16, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 51.225S, -178.576WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 152 km WSW of Adak, Alaska (94 miles) on Wednesday. Unique identifier: at00suslb2. Ids that are associated to the event: at00suslb2. A tsunami warning has been issued near Adak in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:49:50 / 3:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/04/25 / 2025-04-16 03:49:50 / April 16, 2025 @ 3:49 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 26 km (16 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -178.576 West, latitude 51.225 North, depth = 26 km.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days three hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 152 km WSW of Adak, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -178.576° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 51.225° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 152 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 2025-04-16 03:49:50 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-16 03:53:52 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 1 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 400 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6063628 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 208.799983296 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 at00suslb2 Id of event.
Event Code 00suslb2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00suslb2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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