Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag has occurred near Adak in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 158 km WSW of Adak, Alaska (98 miles) on Sunday. Global time and date of event 17/08/25 / 2025-08-17 21:10:26 / August 17, 2025 @ 9:10 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 21:10:26 / 9:10 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000qvgh. Unique identifier: us7000qvgh. Exact location of event, depth 26.587 km, -178.7767° West, 51.3612° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26.587 km (17 miles).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-178.7767° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.3612° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	26.587 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	158 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	2025-08-17 21:10:26	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-12 00:35:49	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	211	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	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.194	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.87 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	188	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000qvgh	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qvgh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qvgh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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