Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag strikes near Sand Point in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) was reported 109 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (68 miles) on Saturday. The epicenter was at a depth of 32.361 km (20 miles). Global time and date of event 30/08/25 / 2025-08-30 17:58:43 / August 30, 2025 @ 5:58 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 17:58:43 / 5:58 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000qsn4. Event ids that are associated: ak025b4iivkn, us7000qsn4. Exact location of earthquake, -159.8385° West, 54.4343° North, depth 32.361 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days five hundred and eighty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every 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. 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: 109 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-159.8385° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.4343° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	32.361 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	109 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	2025-08-30 17:58:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-01 14:42:57	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	188	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	90	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.423	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.62 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	189	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	us7000qsn4	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qsn4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak025b4iivkn,us7000qsn4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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