Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag strikes near Elfin Cove in Alaska

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 31 km WNW of Elfin Cove, Alaska (19 miles) on Tuesday. Event id: ak2025zqtili. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak2025zqtili. The 3.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:23:46 / 5:23 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 0.4 km, -136.849° West, 58.286° North. Exact time and date of earthquake 30/12/25 / 2025-12-30 05:23:46 / December 30, 2025 @ 5:23 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 0.4 km (0 miles).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 31 km WNW of Elfin Cove, Alaska.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-136.849° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	58.286° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31 km WNW of Elfin Cove, Alaska	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-12-30 05:23:46	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-12-30 05:27:12	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	3.663	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	automatic	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	222	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	,ak,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	32	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.5	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	143	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	ak2025zqtili	Id of event.
Event Code	2025zqtili	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,ak2025zqtili,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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