A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) was reported 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska on Friday. Global time and date of event 01/12/18 / 2018-12-01 02:18:15 / December 1, 2018 @ 2:18 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: ak20560348. Ids that are associated to the event: ak20560348, us1000hz3d. The temblor was reported at 17:18:15 / 5:18 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -149.9398° West, latitude 61.4267° North, depth = 29.7 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 29.7 km (18 miles).
Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 23 km (14 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 20 km (13 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and twenty-one, in the last 10 days four hundred and twenty-two, in the past 30 days four hundred and twenty-three and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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.
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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: 8 km SSE of Big Lake, Alaska.
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