A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 173 km SSE of Akutan, Alaska (107 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34.03 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 34.03 km, -164.5584° West, 52.7576° North. Global time and date of event 05/08/18 / 2018-08-05 02:07:06 / August 5, 2018 @ 2:07 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us1000g3px. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000g3px. The temblor was detected at 15:07:06 / 3:07 pm (local time epicenter).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days one hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 173 km SSE of Akutan, Alaska.
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