Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Sand Point in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 118 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (73 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 20.262 km (13 miles). Exact location of earthquake, -159.4836° West, 54.4511° North, depth 20.262 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qu2z, ak0259bt82yp. Id of event: us6000qu2z. The temblor was detected at 05:25:48 / 5:25 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/07/25 / 2025-07-22 05:25:48 / July 22, 2025 @ 5:25 am.

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

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 118 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-159.4836° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.4511° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	20.262 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	118 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	2025-07-22 05:25:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-07-22 06:16:19	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	2.519	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	234	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	23	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.386	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.33 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	161	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	us6000qu2z	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qu2z	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qu2z,ak0259bt82yp,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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