Minor earthquake 3.6 mag, 100 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.6 (ml/mb) was reported 100 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (62 miles) on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000re3q, ak025clhuu7v. Unique identifier: us6000re3q. Exact location of event, longitude -159.7188 West, latitude 54.5487 North, depth = 34.09 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 34.09 km (21 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 01/10/25 / 2025-10-01 21:17:02 / October 1, 2025 @ 9:17 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 21:17:02 / 9:17 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days nineteen and in the last 365 days five hundred and ninety-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

Did you feel it?

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: 100 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

Alaska Sand Point

More information

Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-159.7188° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.5487° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	34.09 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	100 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	2025-10-01 21:17:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-01 21:32:28	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	2.183	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	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.293	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	204	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	us6000re3q	Id of event.
Event Code	6000re3q	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000re3q,ak025clhuu7v,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Minor earthquake 3.6 mag, 100 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska

Did you feel it?

More information

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information