A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 245 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (152 miles) on Saturday. The temblor was picked up at 02:37:20 / 2:37 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/04/18 / 2018-04-07 12:37:20 / April 7, 2018 @ 12:37 pm. Unique identifier: us2000dw16. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000dw16. Exact location of event, depth 20.15 km, -149.944° West, 56.0484° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20.15 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days fourty-seven, in the past 30 days three hundred and thirty-two and in the last 365 days three thousand and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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