Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Fox River in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Fox River in Alaska. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -150.6875 West, latitude 59.828 North, depth = 36 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0259bz9uv1. Id of event: ak0259bz9uv1. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/07/25 / 2025-07-22 15:41:54 / July 22, 2025 @ 3:41 pm. The temblor was reported at 15:41:54 / 3:41 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 36 km (22 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kenai, Sterling, Kalifornsky (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 74 km (46 miles) from Kalifornsky (c. 7 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Kenai (c. 7 100 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Sterling (c. 5 600 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Homer (c. 5 000 pop).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fourty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 15 km ESE of Fox River, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-150.6875° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	59.828° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	36 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	15 km ESE of Fox River, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-07-22 15:41:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-22 15:43:27	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	222	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	0.49 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	ak0259bz9uv1	Id of event.
Event Code	0259bz9uv1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak0259bz9uv1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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