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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag strikes near Sand Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on July 17, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.5827S, -160.2784WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 85 km S of Sand Point, Alaska (53 miles). The temblor was reported at 01:12:21 / 1:12 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 35.128 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00szirck, ak02593h2ro4, us7000qd41. Id of event: us7000qd41. Global time and date of event 17/07/25 / 2025-07-17 01:12:21 / July 17, 2025 @ 1:12 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 35.128 km, -160.2784° West, 54.5827° North. A tsunami warning has been issued near Sand Point in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-one, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage 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: 85 km S of Sand Point, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -160.2784° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.5827° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.128 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85 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 2025-07-17 01:12:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-17 01:28:18 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 3.516 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 416 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 111 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.471 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 122 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 us7000qd41 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qd41 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00szirck,ak02593h2ro4,us7000qd41, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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