Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 71 km N of Yakutat, Alaska

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 71 km N of Yakutat, Alaska (44 miles). The temblor was reported at 00:14:46 / 12:14 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00t6vi0m. Id of event: at00t6vi0m. Exact location of earthquake, -139.693° West, 60.189° North, depth 38 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 07/12/25 / 2025-12-07 00:14:46 / December 7, 2025 @ 12:14 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 38 km (24 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Yakutat in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-six, in the last 10 days fourty-six, in the past 30 days fourty-six and in the last 365 days sixty 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. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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: 71 km N of Yakutat, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-139.693° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	60.189° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	38 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	71 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	2025-12-07 00:14:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-07 00:18:29	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	259	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	25	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.5434807	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.52 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	136.799989056	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	at00t6vi0m	Id of event.
Event Code	00t6vi0m	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00t6vi0m,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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