A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes Southern Alaska kilometers (0 miles) from Southern Alaska on Saturday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak20560732. Id of event: ak20560732. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 32.1 km (20 miles). Exact location, longitude -149.9403° West, latitude 61.4466° North, depth = 32.1 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/12/18 / 2018-12-01 08:21:48 / December 1, 2018 @ 8:21 am. The temblor was detected at 08:21:48 / 8:21 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes. Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Event epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and twenty, in the last 10 days four hundred and twenty-one, in the past 30 days four hundred and twenty-two and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every 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.
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