Minor earthquake 3.8 mag, 117 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska

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A minor earthquake magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 117 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska (73 miles). Unique identifier: us6000rka0. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rka0, ak025dvrmqvj. The temblor was detected at 19:03:17 / 7:03 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/10/25 / 2025-10-29 19:03:17 / October 29, 2025 @ 7:03 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -159.8461 West, latitude 54.3548 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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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. 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: 117 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska.

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