A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 71 kilometers (44 miles) from Anchor Point in Alaska. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:34:57 / 5:34 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak019b0ydpfa. Id of event: ak019b0ydpfa. The epicenter was at a depth of 187.8 km (117 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -153.0737 West, latitude 59.6254 North, depth = 187.8 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/08/19 / 2019-08-28 02:34:57 / August 28, 2019 @ 2:34 am.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Homer (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 86 km (53 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 71 km WSW of Anchor Point, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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