A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from North Nenana in Alaska. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/10/18 / 2018-10-03 03:29:37 / October 3, 2018 @ 3:29 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.3 km (9 miles). The temblor was picked up at 18:29:37 / 6:29 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak20269968. Id of event: ak20269968. Exact location of earthquake, -149.0412° West, 64.9754° North, depth 14.3 km.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Badger, Fairbanks, College. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Fairbanks (c. 31 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Badger (c. 19 500 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from College (c. 13 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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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 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: 44 km N of North Nenana, Alaska.
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