Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag was detected near Adak in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 47 km SSE of Adak, Alaska (29 miles) on Tuesday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 39.6 km (25 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/04/25 / 2025-04-29 20:00:15 / April 29, 2025 @ 8:00 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: ak0255h4v05p. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0255h4v05p. The temblor was picked up at 20:00:15 / 8:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -176.4547 West, latitude 51.4653 North, depth = 39.6 km.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 47 km SSE of Adak, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-176.4547° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.4653° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	39.6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	47 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	2025-04-29 20:00:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-02 17:58:28	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	178	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	0.33 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	ak0255h4v05p	Id of event.
Event Code	0255h4v05p	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak0255h4v05p,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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