A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Redoubt Volcano in Alaska on Thursday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/12/17 / 2017-12-01 02:47:40 / December 1, 2017 @ 2:47 am. The temblor was reported at 17:47:40 / 5:47 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -152.5539 West, latitude 60.2397 North, depth = 101.2 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 101.2 km (63 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: ak17412444, at00p09h3i. Unique identifier: ak17412444.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kenai, Kalifornsky (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop).
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 25 km SSE of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska.
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