Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Meadow Lakes in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Meadow Lakes in Alaska. The temblor was picked up at 13:23:23 / 1:23 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 42.3 km (26 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/07/25 / 2025-07-24 13:23:23 / July 24, 2025 @ 1:23 pm. Exact location of event, depth 42.3 km, -149.643° West, 61.6645° North. Unique identifier: ak0259f91rea. Ids that are associated to the event: ak0259f91rea.

Epicenter of the event was 51 km (32 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 17 km (11 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 12 km (8 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 14 km (9 miles) from Wasilla (c. 7 800 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Anchorage, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Eagle River.

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

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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: 4 km NNW of Meadow Lakes, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-149.643° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	61.6645° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	42.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4 km NNW of Meadow Lakes, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-07-24 13:23:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-24 13:27:18	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	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	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	189	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	0.48 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	ak0259f91rea	Id of event.
Event Code	0259f91rea	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak0259f91rea,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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