Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Chase in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 20 km NE of Chase, Alaska (12 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 52.357 km (33 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: ak0254k0xei8, us6000q4yh. Unique identifier: us6000q4yh. Exact location of event, longitude -149.7966 West, latitude 62.5663 North, depth = 52.357 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/04/25 / 2025-04-09 18:01:13 / April 9, 2025 @ 6:01 pm. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:01:13 / 6:01 pm (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days sixty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 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: 20 km NE of Chase, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-149.7966° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	62.5663° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	52.357 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20 km NE of Chase, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-04-09 18:01:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-29 07:24:03	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		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	168	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	67	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.27	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.47 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	27	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	us6000q4yh	Id of event.
Event Code	6000q4yh	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak0254k0xei8,us6000q4yh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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