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

Posted by admin on August 15, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.4619S, -159.8692WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 105 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (65 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/07/25 / 2025-07-23 05:47:12 / July 23, 2025 @ 5:47 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 32.287 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude -159.8692 West, latitude 54.4619 North, depth = 32.287 km. Event id: us6000qudh. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak0259dgw2i2, us6000qudh. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:47:12 / 5:47 am (local time epicenter).

Every 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 fourty-five, in the last 10 days four hundred and sixty-nine, in the past 30 days four hundred and seventy-two and in the last 365 days five hundred and eighty-two 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 105 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.8692° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.4619° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 32.287 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 2025-07-23 05:47:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-08-15 07:38:54 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 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.404 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 201 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 us6000qudh Id of event.
Event Code 6000qudh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak0259dgw2i2,us6000qudh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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