A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 165 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska (103 miles) on Thursday. Exact location of event, depth 25 km, -163.6436° West, 53.348° North. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak020adwd5m0. Id of event: ak020adwd5m0. The temblor was detected at 08:24:43 / 8:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 13/08/20 / 2020-08-13 08:24:43 / August 13, 2020 @ 8:24 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 25 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 165 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska.
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