Light earthquake, 4.1504633510872 mag has occurred near Yakutat in Alaska

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1504633510872 (ml/mb) was reported 95 km N of Yakutat, Alaska (59 miles) on Saturday. Exact location of earthquake, -139.41296386719° West, 60.389377593994° North, depth 6.1457114219666 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: ak2025xzxilr. Event ids that are associated: ak2025xzxilr. The temblor was detected at 21:12:02 / 9:12 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6.1457114219666 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/12/25 / 2025-12-06 21:12:02 / December 6, 2025 @ 9:12 pm.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-six, in the last 10 days twenty-six, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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: 95 km N of Yakutat, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1504633510872 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-139.41296386719° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	60.389377593994° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.1457114219666 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	95 km N of Yakutat, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-12-06 21:12:02	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-06 22:14:17	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	265	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	65	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.51195669174194	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.6515573510456 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	55.715850830078	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	ak2025xzxilr	Id of event.
Event Code	2025xzxilr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak2025xzxilr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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