Minor earthquake, 3.2 mag was detected near Sand Point in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 114 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (71 miles). Event id: us6000rq03. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak2025xbjobs, us6000rq03. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/11/25 / 2025-11-23 12:28:40 / November 23, 2025 @ 12:28 pm. Exact location of event, longitude -159.5652 West, latitude 54.4561 North, depth = 29.256 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 29.256 km (18 miles). The temblor was detected at 12:28:40 / 12:28 pm (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 two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days six hundred and fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 114 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-159.5652° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	54.4561° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	29.256 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	114 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	2025-11-23 12:28:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-24 12:11:09	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	158	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	57	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.376	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.6 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	196	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	us6000rq03	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rq03	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak2025xbjobs,us6000rq03,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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