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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Sand Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on July 23, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.5948S, -160.3085WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 83 km S of Sand Point, Alaska (52 miles) on Wednesday. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/07/25 / 2025-07-16 20:53:00 / July 16, 2025 @ 8:53 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -160.3085 West, latitude 54.5948 North, depth = 36.939 km. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:53:00 / 8:53 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000qdlu. Event ids that are associated: ak0259253f8r, us7000qdlu. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 36.939 km (23 miles).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and ninety-eight, in the last 10 days one hundred and ninety-eight, in the past 30 days two hundred and one and in the last 365 days three hundred and twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 83 km S of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -160.3085° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.5948° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 36.939 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 83 km S 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 2025-07-16 20:53:00 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-23 18:38:31 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 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 168 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 ,ak,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.48 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.06 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 209 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 us7000qdlu Id of event.
Event Code 7000qdlu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0259253f8r,us7000qdlu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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