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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Yakutat in Alaska

Posted by admin on December 30, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 60.35S, -139.474WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 90 km N of Yakutat, Alaska (56 miles). The temblor was reported at 10:17:18 / 10:17 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/12/25 / 2025-12-30 10:17:18 / December 30, 2025 @ 10:17 am. Event id: ak2025zrdbkw. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: ak2025zrdbkw. Exact location of earthquake, -139.474° West, 60.35° North, depth 5 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days five hundred and thirty-seven and in the last 365 days five hundred and fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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: 90 km N of Yakutat, Alaska. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -139.474° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 60.35° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90 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 2025-12-30 10:17:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-30 10:23:09 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 6.083 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 385 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 87 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 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 69 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 ak2025zrdbkw Id of event.
Event Code 2025zrdbkw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,ak2025zrdbkw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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