A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 277 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (172 miles) on Sunday. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:30:01 / 8:30 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ak19636838. Event ids that are associated: ak19636838. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.6 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/05/18 / 2018-05-14 06:30:01 / May 14, 2018 @ 6:30 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -149.2047° West, 56.0171° North, depth 11.6 km.
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days seventy-four, in the past 30 days two hundred and thirty-three and in the last 365 days three thousand, four hundred and ninety-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 277 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.
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