A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 41 km SSW of Unalaska, Alaska (25 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -166.8378 West, latitude 53.5437 North, depth = 79.83 km. The temblor was picked up at 14:11:41 / 2:11 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/11/15 / 2015-11-06 23:11:41 / November 6, 2015 @ 11:11 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003z4k, ak11781252. Id of event: us10003z4k. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 79.83 km (50 miles) below the earth’s surface.
In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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. 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: 41 km SSW of Unalaska, Alaska.
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