Moderate earthquake 5.3460595356241 mag, 87 km NNE of Yakutat, Alaska

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3460595356241 (ml/mb) was reported 87 km NNE of Yakutat, Alaska (54 miles) on Saturday. Event id: ak2025xzwrbu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak2025xzwrbu. Exact location, longitude -139.40232849121° West, latitude 60.316680908203° North, depth = 5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/12/25 / 2025-12-06 20:51:50 / December 6, 2025 @ 8:51 pm. The temblor was detected at 20:51:50 / 8:51 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 87 km NNE of Yakutat, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3460595356241 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-139.40232849121° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	60.316680908203° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	87 km NNE 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 20:51:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-06 20:53:54	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	automatic	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	440	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	55	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.47888541221619	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.84714651548218 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	79.238785412163	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	ak2025xzwrbu	Id of event.
Event Code	2025xzwrbu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak2025xzwrbu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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