A minor earthquake magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 103.3 km (64 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -152.9616 West, latitude 59.8355 North, depth = 103.3 km. The temblor was detected at 12:23:03 / 12:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/02/18 / 2018-02-15 21:23:03 / February 15, 2018 @ 9:23 pm. Event id: ak18437336. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak18437336.
Event epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer (min 5000 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 four, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and one 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. 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: 63 km W of Anchor Point, Alaska.
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