A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Cohoe in Alaska. Unique identifier: ak15950938. Ids that are associated to the event: ak15950938, at00opkey6. Exact location of event, longitude -151.6604 West, latitude 60.1767 North, depth = 74.4 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Cohoe in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 74.4 km (46 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 19:25:18 / 7:25 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 07/05/17 / 2017-05-07 04:25:18 / May 7, 2017 @ 4:25 am UTC/GMT.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 34 km (21 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sterling, Homer, Kenai (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 28 km SW of Cohoe, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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