A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Nikiski in Alaska. Id of earthquake: ak11703292. Event ids that are associated: ak11703292. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -151.52 West, latitude 61.2044 North, depth = 70.3 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 70.3 km (44 miles). The temblor was picked up at 01:06:57 / 1:06 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/09/15 / 2015-09-16 09:06:57 / September 16, 2015 @ 9:06 am.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kenai (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop).
Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seventy-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 58 km NNW of Nikiski, Alaska.
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