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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Yakutat in Alaska


Earthquake location 60.5489S, -139.7457WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 111 km N of Yakutat, Alaska (69 miles) on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000rkxv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak2025zkprwj, us7000rkxv. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/12/25 / 2025-12-26 21:07:09 / December 26, 2025 @ 9:07 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -139.7457 West, latitude 60.5489 North, depth = 5 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:07:09 / 9:07 pm (local time epicenter).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 111 km N of Yakutat, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -139.7457° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.5489° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 111 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 2025-12-26 21:07:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-26 23:03:56 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 4.572 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 271 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 77 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.52 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 42 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 us7000rkxv Id of event.
Event Code 7000rkxv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak2025zkprwj,us7000rkxv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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