A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 87 km SSE of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska (54 miles) on Wednesday. Unique identifier: us10008sdc. Ids that are associated to the event: ak15880858, us10008sdc. Global time and date of event 03/05/17 / 2017-05-03 02:16:06 / May 3, 2017 @ 2:16 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 14:16:06 / 2:16 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 24.8 km (15 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 178.9152° East, 51.2083° North, depth 24.8 km.
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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