A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Fritz Creek in Alaska. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -151.0408 West, latitude 59.9057 North, depth = 45.2 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak11776751. Id of event: ak11776751. The temblor was detected at 22:12:09 / 10:12 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45.2 km (28 miles). Global time and date of event 06/11/15 / 2015-11-06 07:12:09 / November 6, 2015 @ 7:12 am UTC/GMT.
Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kenai, Sterling, Kalifornsky (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 59 km (36 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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: 23 km NE of Fritz Creek, Alaska.
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