A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 264 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (164 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location, longitude -148.9743° West, latitude 56.3229° North, depth = 11.9 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ak20519394. Unique identifier: ak20519394. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/11/18 / 2018-11-29 09:15:23 / November 29, 2018 @ 9:15 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.9 km (7 miles). The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:15:23 / 11:15 pm (local time epicenter).
In the past 24 hours, there have been sixteen, in the last 10 days thirty-seven, in the past 30 days seventy-one and in the last 365 days four thousand and eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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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: 264 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska.
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