Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag strikes near Adak in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 51 km SSE of Adak, Alaska (32 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location of event, depth 35 km, -176.4241° West, 51.4287° North. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/04/25 / 2025-04-29 20:00:15 / April 29, 2025 @ 8:00 pm. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:00:15 / 8:00 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ak0255h4v05p, us7000pwpl. Unique identifier: us7000pwpl.

In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 51 km SSE of Adak, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-176.4241° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.4287° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	35 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	51 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	2025-05-12 21:14:55	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	199	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	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.434	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	210	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	us7000pwpl	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pwpl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak0255h4v05p,us7000pwpl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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