A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska. Exact location of earthquake, -150.0909° West, 61.3922° North, depth 20 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak20435163. Id of event: ak20435163. The temblor was picked up at 17:30:05 / 5:30 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 03/12/18 / 2018-12-03 02:30:05 / December 3, 2018 @ 2:30 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20 km (12 miles).
Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake 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).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 16 km SSW of Big Lake, Alaska.
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