A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 99 km S of Adak, Alaska (62 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/05/17 / 2017-05-09 09:02:00 / May 9, 2017 @ 9:02 am. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:02:00 / 9:02 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: ak16008069. Unique identifier: ak16008069. Exact location, longitude -176.8093° West, latitude 50.994° North, depth = 34.3 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34.3 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface.
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 99 km S of Adak, Alaska.
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