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Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Sand Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on August 8, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.5405S, -159.6486WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 104 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (65 miles) on Thursday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.321 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -159.6486° West, 54.5405° North, depth 35.321 km. Event id: us7000qd3n. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak02593gfmhe, us7000qd3n. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:04:22 / 12:04 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 17/07/25 / 2025-07-17 00:04:22 / July 17, 2025 @ 12:04 am UTC/GMT.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three hundred and four, in the last 10 days three hundred and four, in the past 30 days three hundred and seven and in the last 365 days four hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. 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. 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: 104 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.6486° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.5405° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.321 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 104 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 00:04:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-08 11:14:35 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 2.261 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 ,ak,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 35 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.293 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 208 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 us7000qd3n Id of event.
Event Code 7000qd3n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak02593gfmhe,us7000qd3n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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