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Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag strikes near Sand Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.518S, -160.1291WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 94 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (58 miles). Date and time of earthquake 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 35 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us7000qd4n. Event ids that are associated: at00szj0iz, us7000qd4n, ak02593iyyhc. A tsunami warning has been issued near Sand Point in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -160.1291° West, 54.518° North, depth 35 km. The 5.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:30:37 / 4:30 am (local time epicenter).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 94 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -160.1291° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.518° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 94 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 04:49:29 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 3.75 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 500 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,us,ak, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 127 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.443 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000qd4n Id of event.
Event Code 7000qd4n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00szj0iz,us7000qd4n,ak02593iyyhc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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