Minor earthquake, 3.6 mag strikes near Sand Point in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was reported 94 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (58 miles) on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 34.548 km (21 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/08/25 / 2025-08-11 04:07:05 / August 11, 2025 @ 4:07 am. The temblor was reported at 04:07:05 / 4:07 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000qzqy. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qzqy, ak025a8v9msh. Exact location of earthquake, -160.1175° West, 54.5182° North, depth 34.548 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days thirteen, in the past 30 days four hundred and twenty-five and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 94 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-160.1175° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.5182° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	34.548 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	94 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	2025-08-11 04:07:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-11 04:28:13	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	2.134	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	199	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	,us,ak,	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	0.439	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	195	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	us6000qzqy	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qzqy	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qzqy,ak025a8v9msh,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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