A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 77 km SSW of Atka, Alaska (48 miles). Unique identifier: us20003gll. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003gll, ak11692564. The temblor was picked up at 19:20:03 / 7:20 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 41.72 km, -174.6165° West, 51.5527° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/09/15 / 2015-09-05 07:20:03 / September 5, 2015 @ 7:20 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 41.72 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface.
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days thirty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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: 77 km SSW of Atka, Alaska.
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