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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Sand Point in Alaska

Posted by admin on November 18, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 54.5099S, -160.032WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 96 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (60 miles) on Tuesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -160.032 West, latitude 54.5099 North, depth = 35 km. Global time and date of event 18/11/25 / 2025-11-18 07:08:29 / November 18, 2025 @ 7:08 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 07:08:29 / 7:08 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Unique identifier: us6000rnwd. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rnwd.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days six hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 96 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -160.032° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.5099° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 96 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 2025-11-18 07:08:29 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-18 07:44:44 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 312 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 92 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.412 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 155 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 us6000rnwd Id of event.
Event Code 6000rnwd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rnwd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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