Minor earthquake, 3.3 mag strikes near Yakutat in Alaska

A minor earthquake magnitude 3.3 (ml/mb) strikes 97 km N of Yakutat, Alaska (60 miles) on Sunday. The epicenter was at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Unique identifier: us6000rthd. Ids that are associated to the event: ak2025yaenpx, us6000rthd. Global time and date of event 07/12/25 / 2025-12-07 00:49:07 / December 7, 2025 @ 12:49 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 00:49:07 / 12:49 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude -139.4926 West, latitude 60.4112 North, depth = 5 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been four hundred and twenty-eight, in the last 10 days four hundred and twenty-eight, in the past 30 days four hundred and twenty-eight and in the last 365 days four hundred and fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world.

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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: 97 km N of Yakutat, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-139.4926° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	60.4112° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	97 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 00:49:07	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-14 02:07:59	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	168	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	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.494	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.25 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	54	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	us6000rthd	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rthd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak2025yaenpx,us6000rthd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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