A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from North Nenana in Alaska. All ids that are associated to the event: ak16132238. Unique identifier: ak16132238. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 17.8 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -149.2354 West, latitude 64.6597 North, depth = 17.8 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/05/17 / 2017-05-27 16:33:05 / May 27, 2017 @ 4:33 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 07:33:05 / 7:33 am (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Badger, Fairbanks, College. Epicenter of the earthquake was 75 km (46 miles) from Fairbanks (c. 31 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Badger (c. 19 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from College (c. 13 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 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 two and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 10 km NNW of North Nenana, Alaska.
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