A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Redoubt Volcano in Alaska. Exact time and date of earthquake 14/03/18 / 2018-03-14 17:24:40 / March 14, 2018 @ 5:24 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 9.5 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak18695943. Id of event: ak18695943. Exact location of event, longitude -152.7772 West, latitude 60.6326 North, depth = 9.5 km. The temblor was picked up at 08:24:40 / 8:24 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kenai (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days eighty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 16 km N of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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