A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) was reported Southern Alaska kilometers (0 miles) from Southern Alaska on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has been issued near Southern Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 21/11/18 / 2018-11-21 18:21:43 / November 21, 2018 @ 6:21 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -153.3083° West, 59.9732° North, depth 145.5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 145.5 km (90 miles). The 5.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:21:43 / 6:21 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ak20386247, at00pik306. Unique identifier: ak20386247.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 105 km (65 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop).
There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. 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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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