A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/02/19 / 2019-02-22 02:09:46 / February 22, 2019 @ 2:09 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 15.5 km (10 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: ak0192foqai5. Unique identifier: ak0192foqai5. Exact location of event, depth 15.5 km, -150.0878° West, 61.3718° North. The temblor was detected at 17:09:46 / 5:09 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 20 km (12 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days five hundred and eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 18 km SSW of Big Lake, Alaska.
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