During the month of January 2025, the Alaska Earthquake Center reported 2920 earthquakes within the state with magnitudes ranging from 1.08 and 5.64 and depths between 0 and 232 km. The largest earthquake was magnitude 5.6 that occurred on January 26 at 13:39:14 AKST (January 26, 22:39:14 UTC), 44 miles SE of Okmok Caldera in Fox Islands Aleutian Islands. There were thirteen other earthquakes with M4.0-5.2.

A surprising earthquake of M5.2 occurred on the evening of January 29, 2025, just nine miles west of Takotna and at a depth of five miles on the Iditarod-Nixon Fork Fault in South-Central Alaska.  You can read more about this event here:

https://earthquake.alaska.edu/surprising-shake-southcentral-alaska.

We also reported 103 seismic sources that were other than regional tectonic earthquakes. Of these, 20 were suspected quarry blasts (magnitudes M=1.1--2.4), located in the vicinity of mines in Interior Alaska. The reported events included 32 icequakes (magnitudes M=1.21-1.67), primarily located in the Prince William Sound, Icy Bay, and Yakutat Bay.. We characterized 51 quakes as seismic events associated with volcanic activity (M=1.1- 3.2)., mostly at the volcanoes in the Katmai group and Mt Spurr.

Twelve earthquakes were reported as felt in January. The largest number of Did You Feel It responses, 62, came from M3.9 earthquake that occurred January 29th, 39 miles east of Healy in the Denali National Park.