A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) strikes 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska on Friday. Unique identifier: ak12944877. Ids that are associated to the event: ak12944877. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/03/16 / 2016-03-05 01:46:45 / March 5, 2016 @ 1:46 am. Exact location of event, depth 78.5 km, -152.5751° West, 59.7792° North. The temblor was picked up at 16:46:45 / 4:46 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 78.5 km (49 miles).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Homer (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days thirty-six and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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