Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Sand Point in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 102 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (63 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -160.1516 West, latitude 54.438 North, depth = 31.769 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/07/25 / 2025-07-16 23:05:29 / July 16, 2025 @ 11:05 pm. The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:05:29 / 11:05 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31.769 km (20 miles). Event id: us7000qdqq. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak025926lgx8, us7000qdqq.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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-eight and in the last 365 days five hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 102 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-160.1516° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.438° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	31.769 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	102 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 23:05:29	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-10 09:41:35	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		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	20	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.512	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	224	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	us7000qdqq	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qdqq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak025926lgx8,us7000qdqq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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