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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 132 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska

Posted by admin on May 17, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.1995S, -159.8746WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 132 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (82 miles) on Saturday. All ids that are associated to the event: at00swevfr, ak0256atm1he, us7000pzuw. Unique identifier: us7000pzuw. The temblor was detected at 15:09:28 / 3:09 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/05/25 / 2025-05-17 15:09:28 / May 17, 2025 @ 3:09 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Sand Point in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude -159.8746° West, latitude 54.1995° North, depth = 35 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 132 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.8746° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.1995° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 132 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-05-17 15:09:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-17 15:35:11 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 2 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.293 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 1 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 370 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 ,at,ak,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 202 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.654 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.53 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000pzuw Id of event.
Event Code 7000pzuw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00swevfr,ak0256atm1he,us7000pzuw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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