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Sun, 4 May 2025, 00:43 | BY: EARTHQUAKEMONITOR
The United States was shaken near Nikolski, Aleutians West, Alaska, by an earthquake of magnitude 5.0 only 16 minutes ago, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reported.
The quake hit at a moderately shallow depth of 21 miles beneath the epicenter near Nikolski, Aleutians West, Alaska, USA, around noon on Saturday, May 3rd, 2025, at 1:26 pm local time. The exact magnitude, epicenter, and depth of the quake might be revised within the next few hours or minutes as seismologists review data and refine their calculations, or as other agencies issue their report.
A second report was later issued by the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake, which listed it as a magnitude 5.0 earthquake as well. A third agency, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), reported the same quake at magnitude 5.0.
Based on the preliminary seismic data, the quake should not have caused any significant damage, but was probably felt by many people as light vibration in the area of the epicenter.
Weak shaking might have been felt in Nikolski (pop. 18) located 42 miles from the epicenter.
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