Minor earthquake, 3.45 mag strikes near Dutch Harbor in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.45 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 5 km W of Dutch Harbor, Alaska (3 miles). Unique identifier: av93956901. Ids that are associated to the event: av93956901, ak2025yxxvzo. Exact location, longitude -166.6235° West, latitude 53.898833333333° North, depth = 8.46 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.46 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 3.45-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:15:06 / 11:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/12/25 / 2025-12-19 23:15:06 / December 19, 2025 @ 11:15 pm.

Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.5 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eighty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 5 km W of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.45 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-166.6235° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	53.898833333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.46 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	5 km W of Dutch Harbor, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-12-19 23:15:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-20 11:19:53	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	4	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.9	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	184	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	av	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,av,ak,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.04008	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.15 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	93	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	av93956901	Id of event.
Event Code	93956901	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,av93956901,ak2025yxxvzo,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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