A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska. Exact location of earthquake, -149.9758° West, 61.428° North, depth 14.6 km. Unique identifier: ak20551784. Ids that are associated to the event: ak20551784. The temblor was detected at 16:57:47 / 4:57 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 14.6 km (9 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/12/18 / 2018-12-27 01:57:47 / December 27, 2018 @ 1:57 am.
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes. The epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 41 km (25 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop).
Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days four hundred and two and in the last 365 days four hundred and fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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. 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: 10 km S of Big Lake, Alaska.
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