A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) strikes 251 km SE of Kodiak, Alaska (156 miles) on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.787 West, latitude 56.1001 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Unique identifier: us2000d2w1. Ids that are associated to the event: ak18437273, us2000d2w1. Global time and date of event 15/02/18 / 2018-02-15 20:05:11 / February 15, 2018 @ 8:05 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 10:05:11 / 10:05 am (local time epicenter).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-one, in the last 10 days two hundred and fourty-one, in the past 30 days one thousand, eight hundred and thirty-eight and in the last 365 days one thousand, eight hundred and fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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