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Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag strikes near Sand Point in Alaska


Earthquake location 54.4729S, -159.7697WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 106 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (66 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -159.7697 West, latitude 54.4729 North, depth = 20.87 km. The 3.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:32:58 / 7:32 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rvaq. Unique identifier: us6000rvaq. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/11/25 / 2025-11-28 19:32:58 / November 28, 2025 @ 7:32 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.87 km (13 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days twenty-one, in the past 30 days thirty-four and in the last 365 days six hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 106 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -159.7697° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 54.4729° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.87 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 106 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 2025-11-28 19:32:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-23 19:08:52 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 178 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 50 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.374 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 192 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 us6000rvaq Id of event.
Event Code 6000rvaq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rvaq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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