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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag has occurred near Sand Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on July 19, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.4788S, -159.9085WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 102 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (63 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 34.03 km (21 miles). Exact location, longitude -159.9085° West, latitude 54.4788° North, depth = 34.03 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/07/25 / 2025-07-17 02:56:38 / July 17, 2025 @ 2:56 am. Unique identifier: us7000qd4c. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qd4c, ak02593hxo2d. The temblor was detected at 02:56:38 / 2:56 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and sixty-five, in the last 10 days one hundred and sixty-five, in the past 30 days one hundred and sixty-nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and eighty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 102 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.9085° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.4788° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 102 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 02:56:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-19 22:08:14 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 2.187 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 222 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 ,us,ak, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 57 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.399 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 165 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 us7000qd4c Id of event.
Event Code 7000qd4c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qd4c,ak02593hxo2d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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