Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Sand Point in Alaska

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was reported 90 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (56 miles) on Thursday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00sziu07, ak02593hnlto. Id of event: at00sziu07. Exact location of earthquake, -159.886° West, 54.604° North, depth 36 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 36 km (22 miles). The 5.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:09:43 / 2:09 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Sand Point in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/07/25 / 2025-07-17 02:09:43 / July 17, 2025 @ 2:09 am UTC/GMT.

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 90 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-159.886° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.604° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	36 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	90 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	2025-07-17 02:09:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-17 02:16:01	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	3.91	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	432	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,at,ak,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	83	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.2856643	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.22 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	172.799986176	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	at00sziu07	Id of event.
Event Code	00sziu07	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00sziu07,ak02593hnlto,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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