A minor earthquake with magnitude 3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska. All ids that are associated to the event: ak20515251. Unique identifier: ak20515251. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -150.108° West, 61.4113° North, depth 20 km. The 3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:45:38 / 4:45 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 16/12/18 / 2018-12-16 01:45:38 / December 16, 2018 @ 1:45 am UTC/GMT.
Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 30 km (19 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), 43 km (27 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fifty, in the past 30 days three hundred and eighty-nine and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage 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: 14 km SW of Big Lake, Alaska.
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