A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska. All ids that are associated to the event: ak20436700. Unique identifier: ak20436700. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -150.09 West, latitude 61.3959 North, depth = 21 km. The temblor was picked up at 21:20:44 / 9:20 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/12/18 / 2018-12-03 06:20:44 / December 3, 2018 @ 6:20 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 21 km (13 miles).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes. Earthquake epicenter was 22 km (14 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
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. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 15 km SSW of Big Lake, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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