A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, Gulf of Alaska (0 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.216 West, latitude 55.601 North, depth = 7.12 km. Unique identifier: us2000cnih. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000cnih. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 24/01/18 / 2018-01-24 01:28:47 / January 24, 2018 @ 1:28 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.12 km (4 miles). The temblor was picked up at 15:28:47 / 3:28 pm (local time epicenter).
In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty-five, in the last 10 days eighty-five, in the past 30 days eighty-five and in the last 365 days eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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: Gulf of Alaska.
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