Minor earthquake, 3.7 mag strikes near Denali National Park in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 25 km E of Denali National Park, Alaska (16 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -151.2033 West, latitude 63.5218 North, depth = 1 km. The temblor was picked up at 10:45:53 / 10:45 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0255u7h63g. Id of event: ak0255u7h63g. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/05/25 / 2025-05-07 10:45:53 / May 7, 2025 @ 10:45 am.

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 three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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. 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: 25 km E of Denali National Park, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-151.2033° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	63.5218° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25 km E of Denali National Park, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-07 10:45:53	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-07 10:50:30	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	3.303	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	211	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	0.86 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	ak0255u7h63g	Id of event.
Event Code	0255u7h63g	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak0255u7h63g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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