A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) strikes 78 km SSW of Kaktovik, Alaska (48 miles) on Tuesday. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/10/18 / 2018-10-30 16:32:37 / October 30, 2018 @ 4:32 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak20305128, us1000hj4c. Id of event: ak20305128. The temblor was picked up at 07:32:37 / 7:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -144.3889 West, latitude 69.4506 North, depth = 2.2 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.2 km (1 miles).
In the past 24 hours, there have been twelve, in the last 10 days twenty-eight, in the past 30 days sixty-five and in the last 365 days five hundred and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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