A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 70 km SSW of Kaktovik, Alaska (43 miles) on Friday. Unique identifier: ak20271812. Ids that are associated to the event: ak20271812. Global time and date of event 05/10/18 / 2018-10-05 21:40:55 / October 5, 2018 @ 9:40 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 12:40:55 / 12:40 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 6.5 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 6.5 km, -144.2585° West, 69.5386° North.
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days sixty-two and in the last 365 days five hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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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: 70 km SSW of Kaktovik, Alaska.
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