A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 52 kilometers (32 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska on Thursday. Unique identifier: ak11649099. Ids that are associated to the event: ak11649099. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/07/15 / 2015-07-17 07:51:45 / July 17, 2015 @ 7:51 am. Exact location, longitude -152.7651° West, latitude 59.8412° North, depth = 97.7 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 97.7 km (61 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 23:51:45 / 11:51 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Homer. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (44 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 52 km W of Anchor Point, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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