A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 80 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska (50 miles). Unique identifier: ak11657512. Ids that are associated to the event: ak11657512. Exact location of event, depth 37 km, -169.3808° West, 52.2827° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/07/15 / 2015-07-27 05:28:00 / July 27, 2015 @ 5:28 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 37 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:28:00 / 6:28 pm (local time epicenter).
In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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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: 80 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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