A light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska. Exact location, longitude -150.0045° West, latitude 61.4416° North, depth = 34.1 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/12/18 / 2018-12-03 02:35:35 / December 3, 2018 @ 2:35 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.1 km (21 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ak20435169, us1000i0ws. Unique identifier: ak20435169. The temblor was reported at 17:35:35 / 5:35 pm (local time epicenter).
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 25 km (16 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 41 km (26 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes.
In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-four, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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