A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 118 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska (73 miles) on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 22/07/20 / 2020-07-22 10:18:24 / July 22, 2020 @ 10:18 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -158.4498° West, latitude 54.9276° North, depth = 26.78 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:18:24 / 10:18 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us7000aszy. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000aszy. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 26.78 km (17 miles).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 118 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska.
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