A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/11/18 / 2018-11-30 20:10:38 / November 30, 2018 @ 8:10 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hymh. Id of event: us1000hymh. The temblor was picked up at 11:10:38 / 11:10 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -150.0773 West, latitude 61.4391 North, depth = 30.28 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 30.28 km (19 miles).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-seven, in the last 10 days fourty-eight, in the past 30 days fourty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 11 km SW of Big Lake, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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