Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Yakutat in Alaska

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 93 km N of Yakutat, Alaska (58 miles) on Sunday. All ids that are associated to the event: at00t7lpwa, ak2025zadcog. Unique identifier: at00t7lpwa. A tsunami warning has been issued near Yakutat in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -139.894 West, latitude 60.384 North, depth = 14 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/12/25 / 2025-12-21 04:02:34 / December 21, 2025 @ 4:02 am. The temblor was picked up at 04:02:34 / 4:02 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14 km (9 miles).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 four hundred and ninety-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 93 km N of Yakutat, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-139.894° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	60.384° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	93 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 04:02:34	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-21 04:07:38	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	5.113	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	312	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	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	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.7599747	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.91 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	136.799989056	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	at00t7lpwa	Id of event.
Event Code	00t7lpwa	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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