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A strong earthquake hit at 3:27am on October 23, 2002 near Denali National Park, jolting people out of their beds in Fairbanks, 85 miles from the epicenter and Anchorage, 170 miles southwest. People reported feeling the quake as far as 350 miles away.

No damage assessments have been reported. The quake happened too far inland to cause a tsunami or seismic sea wave.

Telephone lines to the Denali National Park ranger station, about 27 miles from the epicenter, were dead. The observatory was deluged with calls about the quake, which occurred on an active fault about 25 miles beneath the surface, said Bruce Turner, a seismologist in Palmer.

The "Good Friday" earthquake in Alaska that left 131 people dead in 1964 measured 8.5 on the now-abandoned Richter scale - 9.2 by the current measurement system - and was centered in Prince William Sound near Anchorage.