A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 271 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (168 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 01/03/19 / 2019-03-01 03:41:00 / March 1, 2019 @ 3:41 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us1000j947. Event ids that are associated: ak0192ra9wyr, us1000j947. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, -148.6885° West, 56.4323° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:41:00 / 5:41 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 two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days one thousand, five hundred and seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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: 271 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska.
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