Minor earthquake, 3.4 mag has occurred near Yakutat in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.4 (ml/mb) strikes 107 km N of Yakutat, Alaska (66 miles) on Monday. Exact location of event, longitude -139.9504 West, latitude 60.5021 North, depth = 3.155 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 3.155 km (2 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/12/25 / 2025-12-08 20:41:17 / December 8, 2025 @ 8:41 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us6000rthm. Event ids that are associated: ak2025ydntsr, us6000rthm. The temblor was picked up at 20:41:17 / 8:41 pm (local time epicenter).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-one, in the last 10 days two hundred and ninety, in the past 30 days two hundred and ninety and in the last 365 days three hundred and eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 107 km N of Yakutat, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-139.9504° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	60.5021° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	3.155 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	107 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	2025-12-08 20:41:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-08 21:02:45	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	178	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,ak,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.434	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.41 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	52	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	us6000rthm	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rthm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak2025ydntsr,us6000rthm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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