Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Chignik in Alaska

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 121 km E of Chignik, Alaska (75 miles) on Sunday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/11/25 / 2025-11-23 12:53:51 / November 23, 2025 @ 12:53 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000rpy1. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rpy1. Exact location of event, depth 62.71 km, -156.4517° West, 56.2533° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 62.71 km (39 miles). The temblor was picked up at 12:53:51 / 12:53 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 121 km E of Chignik, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-156.4517° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	56.2533° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	62.71 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	121 km E of Chignik, 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 12:53:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-11-23 14:01:32	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	284	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	104	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.635	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.72 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	100	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	us6000rpy1	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rpy1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rpy1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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