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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Sand Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on August 10, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.5543S, -160.4894WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 87 km S of Sand Point, Alaska (54 miles). The temblor was reported at 21:19:15 / 9:19 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -160.4894 West, latitude 54.5543 North, depth = 17.022 km. Id of earthquake: us7000qdpd. Event ids that are associated: ak025925hkro, us7000qdpd. Global time and date of event 16/07/25 / 2025-07-16 21:19:15 / July 16, 2025 @ 9:19 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 17.022 km (11 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and twenty-four, in the last 10 days four hundred and twenty-four, in the past 30 days four hundred and twenty-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirty-one 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: 87 km S of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -160.4894° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.5543° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.022 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 87 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 21:19:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-10 05:16:44 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 158 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 21 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.591 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 199 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 us7000qdpd Id of event.
Event Code 7000qdpd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak025925hkro,us7000qdpd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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