A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Redoubt Volcano in Alaska. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 02/02/16 / 2016-02-02 15:51:30 / February 2, 2016 @ 3:51 pm. Exact location, longitude -152.4051° West, latitude 60.1148° North, depth = 98.4 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 98.4 km (61 miles). Unique identifier: ak12639624. Ids that are associated to the event: ak12639624. The temblor was picked up at 06:51:30 / 6:51 am (local time epicenter).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kenai, Homer, Kalifornsky. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop).
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 ninety, in the past 30 days ninety-six and in the last 365 days two hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 45 km SSE of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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