A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) strikes 65 kilometers (40 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/11/15 / 2015-11-16 11:42:33 / November 16, 2015 @ 11:42 am UTC/GMT. Event id: ak11954771. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak11954771. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 61.5 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -151.171 West, latitude 61.4119 North, depth = 61.5 km. The temblor was detected at 02:42:33 / 2:42 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Anchorage. Epicenter of the earthquake was 71 km (44 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each 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 six, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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: 65 km W of Big Lake, Alaska.
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