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Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag strikes near Sand Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.4175S, -160.1238WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 105 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (65 miles). Event id: us7000qdn8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak025926rue5, us7000qdn8. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 16/07/25 / 2025-07-16 23:34:48 / July 16, 2025 @ 11:34 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -160.1238 West, latitude 54.4175 North, depth = 18.782 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 18.782 km (12 miles). The 3.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:34:48 / 11:34 pm (local time epicenter).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 105 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -160.1238° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.4175° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.782 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 105 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 23:34:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-10 09:51:45 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 15 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.518 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.55 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 227 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 us7000qdn8 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qdn8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak025926rue5,us7000qdn8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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