Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag was detected near Yakutat in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) strikes 110 km N of Yakutat, Alaska (68 miles) on Sunday. Exact location of earthquake, -139.7379° West, 60.5347° North, depth 5 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000rt8t. Event ids that are associated: ak2025ybwlyu, us6000rt8t. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/12/25 / 2025-12-07 22:54:59 / December 7, 2025 @ 10:54 pm. The 3.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:54:59 / 10:54 pm (local time epicenter).

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 one hundred and seventy-six, in the last 10 days two hundred and fifty-five, in the past 30 days two hundred and fifty-five and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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 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: 110 km N of Yakutat, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-139.7379° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	60.5347° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	110 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 22:54:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-08 05:00:46	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	188	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	29	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.688	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.7 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	104	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	us6000rt8t	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rt8t	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak2025ybwlyu,us6000rt8t,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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