A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was reported 231 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (144 miles) on Sunday. Exact location of event, longitude -150.0732 West, latitude 56.1485 North, depth = 31.23 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 26/08/18 / 2018-08-26 19:48:18 / August 26, 2018 @ 7:48 pm. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:48:18 / 9:48 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us1000ghrt. Event ids that are associated: ak20223933, us1000ghrt. The epicenter was at a depth of 31.23 km (19 miles).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days ninety-seven and in the last 365 days three thousand, eight hundred and seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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