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M 4.3mwr

100 km N of Yakutat, Alaska

Yes. A magnitude 4.3 earthquake was recorded 100 km N of Yakutat, Alaska at 01:56 UTC on 2025-12-07, 5.0 km deep.

· 5.0 km deep · released about 43 tons of TNT

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Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 4.3 (mwr)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Tsunami
USGS flagged this event for tsunami evaluation. Follow tsunami.gov for official messages.
Nearest
Yakutat City and Borough, 65 km SW
Nearest mapped fault
Fairweather fault system, 16 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 254 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon.

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 121 km (75 mi) from the epicentre. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 43 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 4,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.3 about 43 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 89× more

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 7.0 on 2025-12-06 — about 11,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 4 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km:

  1. 6.0 90 km NNW of Yakutat, Alaska · 43 km WSW of this epicentre
  2. 5.4 65 km NNE of Yakutat, Alaska · 41 km SSE of this epicentre
  3. 5.0 66 km NNE of Yakutat, Alaska · 40 km SSE of this epicentre
  4. 5.0 92 km NNW of Yakutat, Alaska · 41 km WSW of this epicentre

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 60.4444, -139.6120. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Yakutat City and Borough, AK 65 km (40 mi) SW earthquakes near Yakutat City and Borough

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

60 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 2.5 111 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  2. 2.5 105 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  3. 2.5 115 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  4. 3.3 97 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  5. 2.6 104 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  6. 2.8 101 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  7. 3.3 115 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  8. 2.7 112 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  9. 3.9 120 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  10. 2.3 101 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  11. 3.0 98 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  12. 3.1 103 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  13. 3.6 111 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  14. 3.4 98 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  15. 3.1 115 km N of Yakutat, Alaska

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

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