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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Yakutat in Alaska

Posted by admin on December 10, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 60.5817S, -139.9671WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 116 km N of Yakutat, Alaska (72 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 10/12/25 / 2025-12-10 11:28:32 / December 10, 2025 @ 11:28 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rtve, ak2025ygmxev. Unique identifier: us6000rtve. Exact location of event, depth 4.335 km, -139.9671° West, 60.5817° North. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.335 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:28:32 / 11:28 am (local time epicenter).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nineteen, in the last 10 days three hundred and fourty-nine, in the past 30 days three hundred and fourty-nine and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. 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: 116 km N of Yakutat, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -139.9671° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.5817° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.335 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 116 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 2025-12-10 11:28:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-10 11:41:32 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 5.491 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 340 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 ,us,ak, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 69 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.508 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000rtve Id of event.
Event Code 6000rtve An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rtve,ak2025ygmxev, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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