Minor earthquake, 3.6934557539288 mag strikes near Nanwalek in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.6934557539288 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 70 km W of Nanwalek, Alaska (43 miles). The 3.6934557539288-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:27:41 / 7:27 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/12/25 / 2025-12-07 07:27:41 / December 7, 2025 @ 7:27 am. Exact location of event, depth 89.94019317627 km, -153.15928649902° West, 59.28572845459° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 89.94019317627 km (56 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak2025yartfc. Id of event: ak2025yartfc.

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days fifteen and in the last 365 days sixty-one 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. 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: 70 km W of Nanwalek, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.6934557539288 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-153.15928649902° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	59.28572845459° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	89.94019317627 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	70 km W of Nanwalek, 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 07:27:41	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-07 07:29:36	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	210	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	37	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.43704453110695	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.77393641780766 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	83.718406677246	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	ak2025yartfc	Id of event.
Event Code	2025yartfc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak2025yartfc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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