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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Akutan in Alaska


Earthquake location 53.445S, -165.468WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 79 km SSE of Akutan, Alaska (49 miles). The temblor was detected at 15:48:48 / 3:48 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Akutan in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 84 km (52 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 17/10/25 / 2025-10-17 15:48:48 / October 17, 2025 @ 3:48 pm. Exact location of earthquake, -165.468° West, 53.445° North, depth 84 km. Unique identifier: at00t4a99c. Ids that are associated to the event: at00t4a99c, ak025dbv2ja9.

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 79 km SSE of Akutan, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -165.468° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 53.445° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 79 km SSE of Akutan, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-10-17 15:48:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-17 15:55:37 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 3.539 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 1 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 385 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at,ak, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 76 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7348219 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 190.799984736 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 at00t4a99c Id of event.
Event Code 00t4a99c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00t4a99c,ak025dbv2ja9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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