A minor earthquake magnitude 3.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska. Global time and date of event 02/01/19 / 2019-01-02 02:50:16 / January 2, 2019 @ 2:50 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 17:50:16 / 5:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -149.9173° West, latitude 61.3894° North, depth = 17.6 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 17.6 km (11 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ak0193ckbcx. Unique identifier: ak0193ckbcx.
Earthquake epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 22 km (13 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop). 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).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. 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 twenty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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