A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.8 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 05/12/18 / 2018-12-05 09:00:42 / December 5, 2018 @ 9:00 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, -150.0593° West, 61.4682° North, depth 19.8 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ak20444025. Unique identifier: ak20444025. The temblor was detected at 00:00:42 / 12:00 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 two hundred and twenty-two, in the past 30 days two hundred and twenty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 8 km SW of Big Lake, Alaska.
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