Past earthquakes worldwide: October 2020 - list, stats and map

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During October 2020, there were 31,058 quakes of magnitudes up to 7.6:

1 quake above magnitude 7
6 quakes between magnitude 6 and 7
151 quakes between magnitude 5 and 6
1,302 quakes between magnitude 4 and 5
3,577 quakes between magnitude 3 and 4
7,704 quakes between magnitude 2 and 3
18,317 quakes below magnitude 2 that people normally don't feel.

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Strongest: Mag. 7.6 Earthquake 97 Km SE of Sand Point, Alaska, USA -

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Past earthquakes worldwide: October 2020 - list, stats and map
Date and Time	Mag Depth	Location	Details
Oct 31, 2020 07:04 pm (GMT -2)	5.1 38 km	South Sandwich Islands Region	Info
Oct 31, 2020 11:15 pm (GMT +13)	4.9 559 km	407 km west of Nuku‘alofa, Nuku'alofa, Tongatapu, Tonga, Fiji	Info
Oct 31, 2020 04:41 am (Ushuaia)	4.9 10 km	South Shetland Islands, Antarctica	Info
Oct 31, 2020 01:44 pm (GMT +12)	5.0 546 km	- south of the Fiji Islands	Info
Friday, October 30, 2020 GMT (15 quakes)
Oct 30, 2020 11:46 pm (GMT +0)	5.3 10 km	Jan Mayen Island Region, Svalbard & Jan Mayen	Info
Oct 30, 2020 10:56 pm (GMT +0)	5.6 10 km	Norwegian Sea, 205 km northeast of Olonkinbyen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen	Info
Oct 31, 2020 04:12 am (Shanghai)	4.8 30 km	81 km south of Kashgar, Kashi Diqu, Xinjiang Weiwuerzizhiqu, China	Info
Oct 30, 2020 01:24 pm (Lima)	5.6 39 km	39 Km Al Este-SE De Pozuzo, Oxapampa - Pasco, Peru 5 reports	Info
Oct 31, 2020 04:01 am (Port Moresby)	5.0 48 km	Hela, 81 km northwest of Tari, Papua New Guinea	Info
Oct 30, 2020 05:14 pm (Athens)	5.3 10 km	- 8 km NW of Kokkári, Greece 72 reports	Info
Oct 30, 2020 09:26 pm (Makassar)	4.8 10 km	202 km south of Manado, Sulawesi Utara, Indonesia	Info

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Estimated combined seismic energy released: 1.9 x 10¹⁶ joules (5146 gigawatt hours, equivalent to 4.4 x 10⁶ tons of TNT or 276.7 atomic bombs!) | about seismic energy

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