A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Nikiski in Alaska. Exact location, longitude -152.0525° West, latitude 60.839° North, depth = 89.7 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 89.7 km (56 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: ak13749243. Ids that are associated to the event: ak13749243. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/07/16 / 2016-07-11 04:30:34 / July 11, 2016 @ 4:30 am. The temblor was picked up at 20:30:34 / 8:30 pm (local time epicenter).
Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Kalifornsky, Kenai. Event epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop).
There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days ninety-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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