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Minor earthquake: M3.5838956854613 quake has struck near Yakutat in Alaska


Earthquake location 60.514419555664S, -139.77836608887WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.5838956854613 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 107 km N of Yakutat, Alaska (66 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 08/12/25 / 2025-12-08 04:49:01 / December 8, 2025 @ 4:49 am UTC/GMT. The 3.5838956854613-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:49:01 / 4:49 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: ak2025ycifdo. Ids that are associated to the event: ak2025ycifdo. Exact location of event, depth 5 km, -139.77836608887° West, 60.514419555664° North.

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes 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 one hundred and six, in the last 10 days two hundred and fifty-four, in the past 30 days two hundred and fifty-four and in the last 365 days two hundred and seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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 3.5838956854613 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -139.77836608887° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.514419555664° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 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 04:49:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-08 05:01:41 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 198 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 71 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.48174655437469 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.2919839185343 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50.747005462646 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 ak2025ycifdo Id of event.
Event Code 2025ycifdo An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak2025ycifdo, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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