Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag has occurred near Skwentna in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 21 km WNW of Skwentna, Alaska (13 miles). The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:53:15 / 4:53 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: ak2025zhnruf. Event ids that are associated: ak2025zhnruf. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/12/25 / 2025-12-25 04:53:15 / December 25, 2025 @ 4:53 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 109.4 km (68 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -151.799° West, 62.032° North, depth 109.4 km.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 21 km WNW of Skwentna, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-151.799° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	62.032° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	109.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21 km WNW 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	2025-12-25 04:53:15	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-25 05:00:12	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	1	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	158	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	91	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	43	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	ak2025zhnruf	Id of event.
Event Code	2025zhnruf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak2025zhnruf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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