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Minor earthquake, 3.4997234089874 mag was detected near Yakutat in Alaska

Posted by admin on December 8, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 60.520092010498S, -139.88645935059WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.4997234089874 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 108 km N of Yakutat, Alaska (67 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -139.88645935059 West, latitude 60.520092010498 North, depth = 5 km. The 3.4997234089874-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:48:38 / 7:48 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 08/12/25 / 2025-12-08 19:48:38 / December 8, 2025 @ 7:48 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Unique identifier: ak2025ydmaiz. Ids that are associated to the event: ak2025ydmaiz.

There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-seven, in the last 10 days two hundred and eighty-one, in the past 30 days two hundred and eighty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 108 km N of Yakutat, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.4997234089874 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -139.88645935059° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.520092010498° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 108 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 19:48:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-08 19:51:24 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 188 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 94 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.88980001211166 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.3151752809558 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88.456558227539 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 ak2025ydmaiz Id of event.
Event Code 2025ydmaiz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak2025ydmaiz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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