A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/08/15 / 2015-08-05 07:38:21 / August 5, 2015 @ 7:38 am. Exact location of event, depth 48.5 km, -151.6928° West, 60.0817° North. The temblor was detected at 23:38:21 / 11:38 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 48.5 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Anchor Point in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: ak11669514. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00nslmjy, us10002y1q, ak11669514.
Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sterling, Kenai, Homer (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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. 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: 33 km N of Anchor Point, Alaska.
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