Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Sand Point in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 126 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (78 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -159.7143 West, latitude 54.2913 North, depth = 25.666 km. The temblor was picked up at 12:08:07 / 12:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/05/25 / 2025-05-20 12:08:07 / May 20, 2025 @ 12:08 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 25.666 km (16 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us7000q0b5. Event ids that are associated: ak0256fqfixm, us7000q0b5.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days ten, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 126 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-159.7143° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.2913° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25.666 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	126 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	2025-05-20 12:08:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-26 05:50:25	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		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	158	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	,ak,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	40	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.546	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.58 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	210	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	us7000q0b5	Id of event.
Event Code	7000q0b5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak0256fqfixm,us7000q0b5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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