A minor earthquake magnitude 2.8 (ml/mb) strikes 36 km SSW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska (22 miles) on Tuesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 03/12/19 / 2019-12-03 23:06:20 / December 3, 2019 @ 11:06 pm. Unique identifier: us60006lt3. Ids that are associated to the event: ak019fhpu96h, us60006lt3. Exact location of event, longitude -178.3929 West, latitude 51.5913 North, depth = 19.38 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 19.38 km (12 miles). The temblor was picked up at 13:06:20 / 1:06 pm (local time epicenter).
There are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. 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 fourteen, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 36 km SSW of Tanaga Volcano, Alaska.
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