A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from North Nenana in Alaska. Unique identifier: ak0205a7q1nx. Ids that are associated to the event: ak0205a7q1nx. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/04/20 / 2020-04-24 01:54:59 / April 24, 2020 @ 1:54 am. The 3.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:54:59 / 4:54 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.2 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -148.9682 West, latitude 64.8136 North, depth = 19.2 km.
Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 59 km (37 miles) from Fairbanks (c. 31 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Badger (c. 19 500 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from College (c. 13 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Badger, Fairbanks, College.
Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 27 km NNE of North Nenana, Alaska.
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