A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Meadow Lakes in Alaska. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.5 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: ak12286013. Ids that are associated to the event: ak12286013. The temblor was detected at 12:45:05 / 12:45 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -149.6783° West, latitude 61.6146° North, depth = 14.5 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 18/12/15 / 2015-12-18 21:45:05 / December 18, 2015 @ 9:45 pm.
Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Anchorage, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Eagle River. Earthquake epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 4 km WSW of Meadow Lakes, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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