A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Anchorage in Alaska. Exact location of event, longitude -150.0543 West, latitude 61.3479 North, depth = 37.5 km. The 2.8-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:09:19 / 11:09 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 12/12/18 / 2018-12-12 08:09:19 / December 12, 2018 @ 8:09 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37.5 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: ak20504730. Ids that are associated to the event: ak20504730.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 17 km (10 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 26 km (16 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).
Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days one hundred and two, in the past 30 days three hundred and seventy-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 16 km NNW of Anchorage, Alaska.
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