Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag has occurred near Sand Point in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 89 km S of Sand Point, Alaska (55 miles) on Wednesday. Id of earthquake: us7000qd2b. Event ids that are associated: ak0259253yc2, us7000qd2b. Exact location of event, longitude -160.2693 West, latitude 54.5419 North, depth = 25.656 km. The temblor was picked up at 20:56:00 / 8:56 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 25.656 km (16 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/07/25 / 2025-07-16 20:56:00 / July 16, 2025 @ 8:56 pm.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-one, in the last 10 days fifty-one, in the past 30 days fifty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-eight 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: 89 km S of Sand Point, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-160.2693° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.5419° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	25.656 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	89 km S 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 20:56:00	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-17 14:09:37	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	1.72	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	168	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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.49	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.97 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	217	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	us7000qd2b	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qd2b	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak0259253yc2,us7000qd2b,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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