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Light earthquake, 4.4411470784514 mag strikes near Yakutat in Alaska


Earthquake location 60.597904205322S, -139.97044372559WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4411470784514 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 117 km N of Yakutat, Alaska (73 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -139.97044372559 West, latitude 60.597904205322 North, depth = 7.3456315994263 km. The 4.4411470784514-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:22:18 / 1:22 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: ak2025yafqeg. Unique identifier: ak2025yafqeg. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 7.3456315994263 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 07/12/25 / 2025-12-07 01:22:18 / December 7, 2025 @ 1:22 am UTC/GMT.

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

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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. 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: 117 km N of Yakutat, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4411470784514 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -139.97044372559° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.597904205322° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 7.3456315994263 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 117 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 01:22:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-07 01:28:09 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 303 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 9 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.55692076683044 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.75555049173351 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 132.70314788818 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 ak2025yafqeg Id of event.
Event Code 2025yafqeg An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak2025yafqeg, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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