A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 267 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (166 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ak01927lq8ke. Unique identifier: ak01927lq8ke. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/02/19 / 2019-02-17 13:32:39 / February 17, 2019 @ 1:32 pm. The temblor was reported at 03:32:39 / 3:32 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -149.2703° West, latitude 56.1009° North, depth = 5.7 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.7 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seventeen, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days one thousand, nine hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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