A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 22 kilometers (14 miles) from North Nenana in Alaska. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -148.9109 West, latitude 64.7653 North, depth = 18.4 km. Id of earthquake: ak16240197. Event ids that are associated: ak16240197. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 28/06/17 / 2017-06-28 12:58:52 / June 28, 2017 @ 12:58 pm. The 3.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:58:52 / 3:58 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 18.4 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Badger, Fairbanks, College (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Fairbanks (c. 31 500 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Badger (c. 19 500 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from College (c. 13 000 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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 two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 22 km NNE of North Nenana, Alaska.
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