A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Fritz Creek in Alaska. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -150.6201 West, latitude 59.8083 North, depth = 34.3 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ak18684923. Unique identifier: ak18684923. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/03/18 / 2018-03-12 01:17:31 / March 12, 2018 @ 1:17 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 16:17:31 / 4:17 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.3 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalifornsky, Homer.
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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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: 38 km ENE of Fritz Creek, Alaska.
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