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Minor earthquake, 3.9265631962848 mag has occurred near Yakutat in Alaska

Posted by admin on December 8, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 60.606895446777S, -139.77853393555WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.9265631962848 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 118 km N of Yakutat, Alaska (73 miles). Exact location, longitude -139.77853393555° West, latitude 60.606895446777° North, depth = 13.480956077576 km. Event id: ak2025xzxevk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak2025xzxevk. Exact time and date of earthquake 06/12/25 / 2025-12-06 21:07:46 / December 6, 2025 @ 9:07 pm UTC/GMT. The 3.9265631962848-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:07:46 / 9:07 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.480956077576 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. 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 thirty-seven, in the last 10 days two hundred and thirty-seven, in the past 30 days two hundred and thirty-seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 118 km N of Yakutat, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9265631962848 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -139.77853393555° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.606895446777° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.480956077576 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 118 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 21:07:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-08 01:54:18 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 237 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 13 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5642973780632 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94965845317036 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90.680725097656 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 ak2025xzxevk Id of event.
Event Code 2025xzxevk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak2025xzxevk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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