A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 12 km SSW of Little Sitkin Island, Alaska (7 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/07/18 / 2018-07-02 18:46:23 / July 2, 2018 @ 6:46 pm. Unique identifier: us2000g0si. Ids that are associated to the event: ak19833857, us2000g0si. The epicenter was at a depth of 113.5 km (71 miles). The temblor was reported at 08:46:23 / 8:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 178.4091 East, latitude 51.8529 North, depth = 113.5 km.
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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