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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 85 km N of Yakutat, Alaska

Posted by admin on December 6, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 60.309S, -139.603WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 85 km N of Yakutat, Alaska (53 miles) on Saturday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00t6vens. Id of event: at00t6vens. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:02:16 / 11:02 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/12/25 / 2025-12-06 23:02:16 / December 6, 2025 @ 11:02 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 37 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, -139.603° West, 60.309° North, depth 37 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Yakutat in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-one, in the last 10 days thirty-one, in the past 30 days thirty-one and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 85 km N of Yakutat, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -139.603° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.309° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 85 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 23:02:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-06 23:06:13 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 1 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 298 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.6512786 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140.399988768 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 at00t6vens Id of event.
Event Code 00t6vens An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00t6vens, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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