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Minor earthquake 3.7487635828001 mag, 120 km N of Yakutat, Alaska


Earthquake location 60.625038146973S, -139.91596984863WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.7487635828001 (ml/mb) strikes 120 km N of Yakutat, Alaska (75 miles) on Saturday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/12/25 / 2025-12-06 21:05:42 / December 6, 2025 @ 9:05 pm. The 3.7487635828001-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:05:42 / 9:05 pm (local time epicenter). Event id: ak2025xzxdcb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak2025xzxdcb. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.1169242858887 km (5 miles). Exact location, longitude -139.91596984863° West, latitude 60.625038146973° North, depth = 8.1169242858887 km.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 120 km N of Yakutat, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.7487635828001 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -139.91596984863° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.625038146973° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.1169242858887 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 120 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 21:05:42 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-08 01:17:39 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 216 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.55667132139206 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88888519791492 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85.531547546387 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 ak2025xzxdcb Id of event.
Event Code 2025xzxdcb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak2025xzxdcb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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