A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 66 km SSW of Kaktovik, Alaska (41 miles) on Thursday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/09/18 / 2018-09-13 15:54:23 / September 13, 2018 @ 3:54 pm. Exact location, longitude -144.5689° West, latitude 69.6335° North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us2000he0n. Event ids that are associated: us2000he0n. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:54:23 / 6:54 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-six, in the last 10 days seventy-six, in the past 30 days two hundred and seventy-three and in the last 365 days five hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 66 km SSW of Kaktovik, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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