A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was reported 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Fritz Creek in Alaska on Saturday. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/07/18 / 2018-07-29 03:35:22 / July 29, 2018 @ 3:35 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 52.8 km (33 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ak19980196. Unique identifier: ak19980196. Exact location of event, longitude -151.0555 West, latitude 60.0477 North, depth = 52.8 km. The temblor was detected at 18:35:22 / 6:35 pm (local time epicenter).
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kenai, Sterling, Homer. Earthquake epicenter was 43 km (27 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 37 km NNE of Fritz Creek, Alaska.
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