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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Sand Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on July 17, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.5697S, -160.2307WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 87 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (54 miles). Global time and date of event 16/07/25 / 2025-07-16 21:10:41 / July 16, 2025 @ 9:10 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude -160.2307 West, latitude 54.5697 North, depth = 28.748 km. Event id: us7000qd25. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak025925fpj8, us7000qd25. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:10:41 / 9:10 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 28.748 km (18 miles).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-seven, in the last 10 days twenty-seven, in the past 30 days thirty and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 87 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -160.2307° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.5697° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.748 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87 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 2025-07-16 21:10:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-17 00:26:52 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 2.406 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 271 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.455 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.36 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 172 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000qd25 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qd25 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak025925fpj8,us7000qd25, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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