A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/12/18 / 2018-12-04 02:33:27 / December 4, 2018 @ 2:33 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10.2 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:33:27 / 5:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -150.1292° West, latitude 61.4006° North, depth = 10.2 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak20441254. Id of event: ak20441254.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes. Event epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 49 km (31 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days two hundred and one, in the past 30 days two hundred and three and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 16 km SW of Big Lake, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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