Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Adak in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 271 km WSW of Adak, Alaska (168 miles) on Sunday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52.341 km (33 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/12/25 / 2025-12-07 08:01:36 / December 7, 2025 @ 8:01 am. The temblor was detected at 08:01:36 / 8:01 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak2025yaswga, us6000rt3m. Id of event: us6000rt3m. Exact location of event, longitude 179.5595 East, latitude 51.3063 North, depth = 52.341 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 271 km WSW of Adak, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	179.5595° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	51.3063° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	52.341 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	271 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	2025-12-07 08:01:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-07 12:34:49	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	158	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	18	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.177	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.36 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	218	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	us6000rt3m	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rt3m	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak2025yaswga,us6000rt3m,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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