A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 260 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (162 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -149.2674° West, 56.1918° North, depth 20.18 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:32:27 / 4:32 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us2000fq8q. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000fq8q. Global time and date of event 28/06/18 / 2018-06-28 14:32:27 / June 28, 2018 @ 2:32 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 20.18 km (13 miles).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days seventy-one and in the last 365 days three thousand, six hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 260 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.
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