A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Nikiski in Alaska. Global time and date of event 08/12/16 / 2016-12-08 18:35:07 / December 8, 2016 @ 6:35 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -151.2899° West, 60.7989° North, depth 83.2 km. The temblor was reported at 09:35:07 / 9:35 am (local time epicenter). Event id: ak14700767. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak14700767. The epicenter was at a depth of 83.2 km (52 miles).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kalifornsky, Sterling, Kenai. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 42 km (26 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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