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Minor earthquake, 3.9894091651091 mag strikes near Sand Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.740673065186S, -160.52766418457WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9894091651091 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 66 km S of Sand Point, Alaska (41 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.972723007202 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 00:19:15 / 12:19 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 02/12/25 / 2025-12-02 00:19:15 / December 2, 2025 @ 12:19 am UTC/GMT. Event id: ak2025xqyxtt. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak2025xqyxtt. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -160.52766418457 West, latitude 54.740673065186 North, depth = 12.972723007202 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days six hundred and eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 66 km S of Sand Point, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9894091651091 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -160.52766418457° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.740673065186° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.972723007202 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66 km S 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 2025-12-02 00:19:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-02 01:02:38 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 245 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network ak The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,ak, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 99 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.55089622735977 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1116888289877 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 175.82161712646 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 ak2025xqyxtt Id of event.
Event Code 2025xqyxtt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak2025xqyxtt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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