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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Sand Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on August 14, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.5087S, -160.0146WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) was reported 97 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (60 miles) on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 30.955 km (19 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 18/07/25 / 2025-07-18 17:23:20 / July 18, 2025 @ 5:23 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us6000r0ia. Ids that are associated to the event: ak02595e7ehl, us6000r0ia. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:23:20 / 5:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -160.0146 West, latitude 54.5087 North, depth = 30.955 km.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 one hundred and eighty-five, in the last 10 days four hundred and sixty-six, in the past 30 days four hundred and seventy and in the last 365 days five hundred and eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. 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: 97 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -160.0146° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.5087° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.955 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 97 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 2025-07-18 17:23:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-14 15:33:03 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 178 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 44 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.407 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 202 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 us6000r0ia Id of event.
Event Code 6000r0ia An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak02595e7ehl,us6000r0ia, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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