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May 5th, 2011
12:49 PMET


Earthquakes struck in Mexico, Alaska and Japan on Thursday, the U.S.
Geological Survey said.


The first earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.8 struck in
southwestern Mexico, in the state of Guerrero, according to the USGS.
The Mexican Seismological Service put the magnitude at 5.5. Many people
exited the buildings they were in, but there were no immediate reports
of damage.


Then a 5.8 magnitude earthquake was recorded on the Alaska Peninsula 14
miles south of Sand Point, Alaska and 573 miles southwest of Anchorage.


It was followed by a 6.1 earthquake that hit below the sea floor off the
coast of the Japanese island of Honshu Thursday, the U.S. Geological
Survey said. The depth of the quake is 15 miles, the USGS said and the
epicenter is located 172 miles from Sendai, near the same zone as the
aftershocks that followed the March 11 quake. The Japan Meteorological
Agency has so far not released any tsunami warning.


Julie Dutton, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Golden,
Colorado, said that while it makes some people wary to see several
moderate earthquakes (ones that register between 5.0 and 5.9) occurring
in such a short time span, it isn't out of the norm.


"It's not something that occurs every day, but this is definitely not
something we haven't seen before, or that we won't see again," she told
CNN. "Earthquakes are kind of cyclic and sometimes it'll just happen
that you'll have an influx of earthquakes around the same time. Other
times they'll just be spread out."


For example, Dutton said there was a day in the past week where there
were 12 moderate earthquakes recorded in one day. She acknowledged that
on that day, they were on the lower part of the moderate scale, and that
these three were a bit higher, but said it was certainly not something
to be overly concerned about.


"We've had five or six of them every day for the last week, so it's
definitely not something that we're concerned about," she said. "Its
just pretty random at this point and it just happened that a bunch were
higher today."

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