A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/12/18 / 2018-12-03 22:27:40 / December 3, 2018 @ 10:27 pm. Id of earthquake: ak20440920. Event ids that are associated: ak20440920. The temblor was detected at 13:27:40 / 1:27 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 23 km (14 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -150.1095° West, 61.3934° North, depth 23 km.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 22 km (14 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-two, in the last 10 days two hundred, in the past 30 days two hundred and two and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 16 km SSW of Big Lake, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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