A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 14:59:50 / 2:59 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ak20420560. Ids that are associated to the event: ak20420560. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 30/11/18 / 2018-11-30 23:59:50 / November 30, 2018 @ 11:59 pm. Exact location, longitude -150.0943° West, latitude 61.4507° North, depth = 20.2 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.2 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 28 km (17 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 32 km (20 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).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been sixty-eight, in the last 10 days sixty-nine, in the past 30 days seventy and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.
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