A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska. Exact location, longitude -150.1431° West, latitude 61.4966° North, depth = 47.4 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 01/12/18 / 2018-12-01 17:36:01 / December 1, 2018 @ 5:36 pm. The temblor was picked up at 08:36:01 / 8:36 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 47.4 km (29 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak20424531. Id of event: ak20424531.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes. Earthquake epicenter was 34 km (21 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 36 km (23 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fourty-six, in the last 10 days one hundred and fifty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and fifty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 10 km WSW of Big Lake, Alaska.
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