A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) strikes 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Homer in Alaska on Saturday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 48.9 km (30 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/10/16 / 2016-10-08 22:32:02 / October 8, 2016 @ 10:32 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: ak14191061. Unique identifier: ak14191061. Exact location of earthquake, -152.1993° West, 59.1992° North, depth 48.9 km. The temblor was picked up at 14:32:02 / 2:32 pm (local time epicenter).
Epicenter of the earthquake was 61 km (38 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer. 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 one, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-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. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 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: 61 km SW of Homer, Alaska.
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