A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Fritz Creek in Alaska. The epicenter was at a depth of 27.2 km (17 miles). Event id: ak18390787. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak18390787. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/02/18 / 2018-02-07 05:07:03 / February 7, 2018 @ 5:07 am. Exact location, longitude -150.7314° West, latitude 59.9188° North, depth = 27.2 km. The temblor was detected at 20:07:03 / 8:07 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kenai, Sterling, Kalifornsky (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 64 km (39 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 37 km ENE of Fritz Creek, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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