A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska. Exact location of event, longitude -152.5716 West, latitude 59.8828 North, depth = 90 km. Global time and date of event 22/09/15 / 2015-09-22 02:02:03 / September 22, 2015 @ 2:02 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 18:02:03 / 6:02 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 90 km (56 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: ak11719019. Event ids that are associated: ak11719019.
The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Homer. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 43 km WNW of Anchor Point, Alaska.
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