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Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag was detected near Sand Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on October 18, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.5962S, -159.7436WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) was reported 95 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (59 miles) on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, -159.7436° West, 54.5962° North, depth 30.198 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rhv1. Id of event: us6000rhv1. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 30.198 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 26/09/25 / 2025-09-26 02:58:38 / September 26, 2025 @ 2:58 am. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:58:38 / 2:58 am (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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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: 95 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.7436° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.5962° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.198 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 95 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 2025-09-26 02:58:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-18 22:57:00 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 ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 11 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.252 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 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 us6000rhv1 Id of event.
Event Code 6000rhv1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rhv1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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