A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:59:05 / 4:59 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Anchor Point in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 14/10/16 / 2016-10-14 12:59:05 / October 14, 2016 @ 12:59 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 63 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: at00of1g2h. Unique identifier: at00of1g2h. Exact location, longitude -151.793° West, latitude 59.795° North, depth = 63 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kenai, Kalifornsky, Homer. Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 75 km (46 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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