A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, Samoa Islands region (0 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/08/19 / 2019-08-03 21:05:34 / August 3, 2019 @ 9:05 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us600050b5. Unique identifier: us600050b5. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:05:34 / 9:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -172.9433 West, latitude -15.1676 South, depth = 10 km.
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-three 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. 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: Samoa Islands region.
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