A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 277 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (172 miles). Global time and date of event 27/06/18 / 2018-06-27 18:16:11 / June 27, 2018 @ 6:16 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us2000fu1s. Event ids that are associated: ak19804758, us2000fu1s. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -148.6217° West, latitude 56.3924° North, depth = 10 km. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:16:11 / 8:16 am (local time epicenter).
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 twenty-one, in the last 10 days fourty-seven, in the past 30 days ninety-eight and in the last 365 days three thousand, six hundred and twenty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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 ESE of Kodiak, Alaska.
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