A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:10:02 / 1:10 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 30/11/18 / 2018-11-30 22:10:02 / November 30, 2018 @ 10:10 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude -150.0761° West, latitude 61.4309° North, depth = 42.72 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000hyu6. Id of event: us1000hyu6. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 42.72 km (27 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes. Epicenter of the event was 25 km (16 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 30 km (18 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), 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 seventy-eight, in the last 10 days seventy-nine, in the past 30 days eighty and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 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. 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: 11 km SSW of Big Lake, Alaska.
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