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Minor earthquake: M3.3 quake has struck near Sand Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on August 10, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.5897S, -159.9828WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 89 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (55 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 24.398 km (15 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 24.398 km, -159.9828° West, 54.5897° North. Global time and date of event 16/07/25 / 2025-07-16 21:06:33 / July 16, 2025 @ 9:06 pm UTC/GMT. Event id: us7000qdp4. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak025925etrr, us7000qdp4. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:06:33 / 9:06 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three hundred and sixty-one, in the last 10 days three hundred and sixty-one, in the past 30 days three hundred and sixty-four and in the last 365 days four hundred and seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 89 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.9828° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.5897° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 24.398 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 21:06:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-10 04:35:11 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 168 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.333 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 218 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 us7000qdp4 Id of event.
Event Code 7000qdp4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak025925etrr,us7000qdp4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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