Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag was detected near Sand Point in Alaska

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, 91 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (57 miles). The temblor was reported at 04:30:37 / 4:30 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 event in UTC/GMT: 17/07/25 / 2025-07-17 04:30:37 / July 17, 2025 @ 4:30 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.8 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -160.143 West, latitude 54.5406 North, depth = 28.8 km. All ids that are associated to the event: at00szj0iz, ak02593iyyhc. Unique identifier: ak02593iyyhc.

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-six, in the last 10 days thirty-six, in the past 30 days thirty-nine and in the last 365 days one hundred and fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 91 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-160.143° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.5406° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	28.8 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	91 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 04:30:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-17 04:43:17	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	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	465	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	ak	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		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.01 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		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	ak02593iyyhc	Id of event.
Event Code	02593iyyhc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00szj0iz,ak02593iyyhc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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