A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 294 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska (183 miles) on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -148.4035 West, latitude 56.2988 North, depth = 10 km. Global time and date of event 22/11/18 / 2018-11-22 20:31:39 / November 22, 2018 @ 8:31 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak20443314. Id of event: ak20443314. The temblor was picked up at 10:31:39 / 10:31 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days seventy-two and in the last 365 days three thousand, eight hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 294 km ESE of Kodiak, Alaska.
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