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Minor earthquake, 3.8483765359777 mag has occurred near Yakutat in Alaska


Earthquake location 60.448097229004S, -139.67832946777WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8483765359777 (ml/mb) was reported 100 km N of Yakutat, Alaska (62 miles) on Saturday. Global time and date of event 06/12/25 / 2025-12-06 22:17:25 / December 6, 2025 @ 10:17 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 22:17:25 / 10:17 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude -139.67832946777° West, latitude 60.448097229004° North, depth = 4.0420055389404 km. Event id: ak2025xzzmvk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak2025xzzmvk. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 4.0420055389404 km (3 miles).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty-one, in the last 10 days eighty-one, in the past 30 days eighty-one and in the last 365 days ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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: 100 km N of Yakutat, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.8483765359777 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -139.67832946777° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.448097229004° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.0420055389404 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 100 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 2025-12-06 22:17:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-07 00:22:36 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 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 228 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 68 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.45472553372383 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1587815611479 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87.030624389648 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 ak2025xzzmvk Id of event.
Event Code 2025xzzmvk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak2025xzzmvk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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