A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) strikes 255 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (158 miles) on Friday. Global time and date of event 22/06/18 / 2018-06-22 21:02:03 / June 22, 2018 @ 9:02 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 11:02:03 / 11:02 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -149.4909° West, latitude 56.1334° North, depth = 12 km. Id of earthquake: ak19795200. Event ids that are associated: ak19795200.
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days eighty-two and in the last 365 days three thousand, six hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 255 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.
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