Minor earthquake 3.4 mag, 9 km N of Willow, Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Willow in Alaska. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:09:29 / 1:09 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 17/01/25 / 2025-01-17 01:09:29 / January 17, 2025 @ 1:09 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 42.278 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude -150.04° West, latitude 61.8362° North, depth = 42.278 km. Event id: us6000pkjp. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pkjp.

Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Anchorage (c. 291 800 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Eagle River (c. 24 800 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 46 km (29 miles) from Lakes (c. 8 400 pop), 40 km (25 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Anchorage, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Eagle River (min 5000 pop).

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

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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: 9 km N of Willow, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-150.04° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	61.8362° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	42.278 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	9 km N of Willow, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-17 01:09:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-17 01:20:41	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	reviewed	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	178	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	41	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.498	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	37	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	us6000pkjp	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pkjp	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pkjp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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