Minor earthquake: M3.2 quake has struck near Point Possession in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Point Possession in Alaska. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/02/25 / 2025-02-06 00:18:01 / February 6, 2025 @ 12:18 am. Exact location of event, depth 45.386 km, -150.393° West, 61.0101° North. The temblor was reported at 00:18:01 / 12:18 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us7000pbpx. Ids that are associated to the event: ak0251p6zpbe, us7000pbpx. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45.386 km (28 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Meadow Lakes, Knik-Fairview, Kenai. Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 35 km (22 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Meadow Lakes (c. 7 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days fifty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 18 km ENE of Point Possession, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-150.393° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	61.0101° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	45.386 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18 km ENE of Point Possession, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-02-06 00:18:01	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-01 00:29:26	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	5	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.1	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	2.44	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	159	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ak,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	53	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.158	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.53 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	44	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000pbpx	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pbpx	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak0251p6zpbe,us7000pbpx,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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