A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) was reported 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Big Lake in Alaska on Friday. All ids that are associated to the event: ak20513932. Unique identifier: ak20513932. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 15/12/18 / 2018-12-15 05:23:29 / December 15, 2018 @ 5:23 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 20 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -150.1451 West, latitude 61.3906 North, depth = 20 km. The temblor was reported at 20:23:29 / 8:23 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Palmer, Gateway, Lakes (min 5000 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days fifty-nine, in the past 30 days three hundred and eighty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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