A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 123 km S of Atka, Alaska (76 miles). The temblor was picked up at 16:41:17 / 4:41 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us20005ayj. Ids that are associated to the event: us20005ayj. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/03/16 / 2016-03-19 04:41:17 / March 19, 2016 @ 4:41 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -174.2613 West, latitude 51.0895 North, depth = 10 km.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days thirty-seven, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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