Light earthquake 4.481268226101 mag, 109 km N of Yakutat, Alaska

A light earthquake magnitude 4.481268226101 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 109 km N of Yakutat, Alaska (68 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/12/25 / 2025-12-06 21:03:19 / December 6, 2025 @ 9:03 pm. Unique identifier: ak2025xzxayw. Ids that are associated to the event: ak2025xzxayw. The temblor was detected at 21:03:19 / 9:03 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -139.90612792969 West, latitude 60.528205871582 North, depth = 5 km.

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

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 109 km N of Yakutat, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.481268226101 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-139.90612792969° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	60.528205871582° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	109 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 21:03:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-06 22:21:20	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	309	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	54	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.46678870916367	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	2.1684247661692 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	50.014419555664	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	ak2025xzxayw	Id of event.
Event Code	2025xzxayw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak2025xzxayw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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Light earthquake 4.481268226101 mag, 109 km N of Yakutat, Alaska

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