A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska. Exact location of event, depth 39.3 km, -149.9092° West, 61.4426° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/12/18 / 2018-12-16 04:08:42 / December 16, 2018 @ 4:08 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.3 km (24 miles). Event id: ak20515421. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak20515421. The temblor was reported at 19:08:42 / 7:08 pm (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 25 km (16 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 33 km (20 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days fourty-nine, in the past 30 days three hundred and ninety-one and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 9 km SSE of Big Lake, Alaska.
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