A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Sterling in Alaska. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -150.1868 West, latitude 60.549 North, depth = 37.6 km. All ids that are associated to the event: ak019fb32lix. Unique identifier: ak019fb32lix. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 37.6 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 29/11/19 / 2019-11-29 22:02:30 / November 29, 2019 @ 10:02 pm. The temblor was detected at 13:02:30 / 1:02 pm (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop). Nearby 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 Anchorage, Kalifornsky, Kenai.
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 0, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days five hundred and fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 31 km E of Sterling, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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