A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 94 km NE of Chernabura Island, Alaska (58 miles). Exact location, longitude -158.4831° West, latitude 55.3685° North, depth = 20.66 km. Id of earthquake: us200062yl. Event ids that are associated: ak13637710, us200062yl. Global time and date of event 01/06/16 / 2016-06-01 18:09:30 / June 1, 2016 @ 6:09 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 07:09:30 / 7:09 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20.66 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface.
In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 94 km NE of Chernabura Island, Alaska.
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