Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Yakutat in Alaska

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 96 km N of Yakutat, Alaska (60 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -139.738 West, latitude 60.417 North, depth = 1 km. A tsunami warning has been issued near Yakutat in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: at00t6wviw. Event ids that are associated: at00t6wviw. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 1 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was picked up at 18:04:08 / 6:04 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/12/25 / 2025-12-07 18:04:08 / December 7, 2025 @ 6:04 pm.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and eighty-eight, in the last 10 days one hundred and eighty-eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighty-eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 96 km N of Yakutat, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-139.738° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	60.417° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	1 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	96 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 18:04:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-07 18:08:05	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	340	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	37	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.7698562	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.46 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	143.99998848	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	at00t6wviw	Id of event.
Event Code	00t6wviw	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,at00t6wviw,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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