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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Yakutat in Alaska

Posted by admin on December 28, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 60.416S, -139.933WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 97 km N of Yakutat, Alaska (60 miles) on Sunday. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:50:49 / 6:50 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 1 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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, depth 1 km, -139.933° West, 60.416° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/12/25 / 2025-12-28 18:50:49 / December 28, 2025 @ 6:50 pm. Event id: at00t7ztop. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: at00t7ztop, ak2025zocqdp.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days five hundred and sixteen and in the last 365 days five hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. 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. 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 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -139.933° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.416° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 1 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 2025-12-28 18:50:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-28 18:54:39 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 5.737 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 326 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 37 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.7959073 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 140.399988768 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 at00t7ztop Id of event.
Event Code 00t7ztop An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00t7ztop,ak2025zocqdp, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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