A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Y in Alaska on Monday. Unique identifier: ak19362245. Ids that are associated to the event: ak19362245. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -149.6212 West, latitude 62.0234 North, depth = 20 km. Global time and date of event 08/05/18 / 2018-05-08 06:28:37 / May 8, 2018 @ 6:28 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 21:28:37 / 9:28 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Eagle River, Knik-Fairview, Palmer. Epicenter of the earthquake was 78 km (49 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Meadow Lakes (c. 7 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
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 sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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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: 19 km SE of Y, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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