A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Fritz Creek in Alaska. The temblor was reported at 20:51:26 / 8:51 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 19/10/18 / 2018-10-19 05:51:26 / October 19, 2018 @ 5:51 am. Event id: ak20287031. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak20287031, us1000he9i. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -150.4985 West, latitude 60.0376 North, depth = 34.8 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 34.8 km (22 miles).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer, Kenai, Kalifornsky. Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 61 km (38 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop), 73 km (46 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 55 km NE of Fritz Creek, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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