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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Sand Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on July 23, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.6237S, -159.8593WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 89 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (55 miles). Event id: us7000qdnq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0259252t7l, us7000qdnq. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -159.8593 West, latitude 54.6237 North, depth = 24.203 km. The temblor was reported at 20:50:27 / 8:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 16/07/25 / 2025-07-16 20:50:27 / July 16, 2025 @ 8:50 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 24.203 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 89 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.8593° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.6237° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.203 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89 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 20:50:27 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-07-23 16:25:38 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 188 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.26 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 204 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 us7000qdnq Id of event.
Event Code 7000qdnq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0259252t7l,us7000qdnq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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