A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) strikes 112 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska (70 miles) on Wednesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/07/15 / 2015-07-29 21:08:28 / July 29, 2015 @ 9:08 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: ak11663741, us10002xpd. Unique identifier: us10002xpd. The temblor was detected at 10:08:28 / 10:08 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 15.5 km (10 miles). Exact location, longitude -169.3455° West, latitude 51.9703° North, depth = 15.5 km.
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventy-nine, in the last 10 days one hundred and ninety-four, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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: 112 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska.
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