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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Yakutat in Alaska

Posted by admin on December 21, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 60.5S, -139.868WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 106 km N of Yakutat, Alaska (66 miles) on Sunday. Global time and date of event 21/12/25 / 2025-12-21 04:02:32 / December 21, 2025 @ 4:02 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Yakutat in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -139.868 West, latitude 60.5 North, depth = 5 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 04:02:32 / 4:02 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: at00t7lpwa, ak2025zadcog. Unique identifier: ak2025zadcog.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days thirty-nine, in the past 30 days four hundred and eighty-six and in the last 365 days five hundred and two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 106 km N of Yakutat, Alaska.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -139.868° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.5° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 106 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 2025-12-21 04:02:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-21 04:15:35 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 5.033 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 1 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 284 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 ,at,ak, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 86 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.4 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.3 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 49 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 ak2025zadcog Id of event.
Event Code 2025zadcog An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00t7lpwa,ak2025zadcog, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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