A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 74 km ENE of Adak, Alaska (46 miles) on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, -175.606° West, 52.0321° North, depth 70 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/10/16 / 2016-10-06 21:43:27 / October 6, 2016 @ 9:43 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us20007e98. Event ids that are associated: ak14188467, us20007e98. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:43:27 / 12:43 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 70 km (43 miles).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days twenty-two and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-one 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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