A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Cohoe in Alaska. The temblor was reported at 22:52:34 / 10:52 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 08/01/17 / 2017-01-08 07:52:34 / January 8, 2017 @ 7:52 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 94.4 km, -152.0332° West, 60.3105° North. Unique identifier: ak15022190. Ids that are associated to the event: ak15022190. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 94.4 km (59 miles).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sterling, Kenai, Kalifornsky. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 43 km (26 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and sixty 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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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 40 km W of Cohoe, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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