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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Sand Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on July 23, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.4779S, -159.951WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 101 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (63 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, -159.951° West, 54.4779° North, depth 27.614 km. The temblor was reported at 20:48:12 / 8:48 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 27.614 km (17 miles). Event id: us7000qdnn. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0259252cso, us7000qdnn. Global time and date of event 16/07/25 / 2025-07-16 20:48:12 / July 16, 2025 @ 8:48 pm UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and ninety-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and ninety-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and ninety-five and in the last 365 days three hundred and five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 101 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.951° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.4779° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 27.614 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 101 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 2025-07-16 20:48:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-23 15:52:14 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 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 178 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.412 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.86 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 241 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 us7000qdnn Id of event.
Event Code 7000qdnn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0259252cso,us7000qdnn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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