Minor earthquake: M3.6 quake has struck near Skwentna in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Skwentna in Alaska. Exact location of event, longitude -150.9411 West, latitude 61.8864 North, depth = 64.5 km. The temblor was reported at 10:04:29 / 10:04 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 01/05/25 / 2025-05-01 10:04:29 / May 1, 2025 @ 10:04 am. Unique identifier: ak0255ka08xp. Ids that are associated to the event: ak0255ka08xp. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 64.5 km (40 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Meadow Lakes (c. 7 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tanaina, Knik-Fairview, Meadow Lakes.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 26 km ESE of Skwentna, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-150.9411° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	61.8864° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	64.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	26 km ESE of Skwentna, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-01 10:04:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-01 10:06:01	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	automatic	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	199	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ak	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ak,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		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	ak0255ka08xp	Id of event.
Event Code	0255ka08xp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak0255ka08xp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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