A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska. All ids that are associated to the event: ak19311693. Unique identifier: ak19311693. The epicenter was at a depth of 38.3 km (24 miles). The temblor was picked up at 06:24:28 / 6:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -151.717 West, latitude 59.8774 North, depth = 38.3 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/05/18 / 2018-05-04 15:24:28 / May 4, 2018 @ 3:24 pm.
Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kenai, Kalifornsky, Homer. The epicenter was 65 km (40 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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: 12 km NNE of Anchor Point, Alaska.
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