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M 3.3ml

97 km N of Yakutat, Alaska

Yes. A magnitude 3.3 earthquake was recorded 97 km N of Yakutat, Alaska at 22:00 UTC on 2025-12-06, 5.0 km deep.

· 5.0 km deep · released about 1.3 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 3.3 (ml)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Yakutat City and Borough, 66 km SW
Nearest mapped fault
Fairweather fault system, 11 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 small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 52 km (32 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 1.3 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 5,600× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.3 about 1.3 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.8× 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 350,000 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 · 46 km WSW of this epicentre
  2. 5.4 65 km NNE of Yakutat, Alaska · 36 km SSE of this epicentre
  3. 5.0 66 km NNE of Yakutat, Alaska · 35 km SSE of this epicentre
  4. 5.0 92 km NNW of Yakutat, Alaska · 44 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 60.4123, -139.5293. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Yakutat City and Borough, AK 66 km (41 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. 3.1 105 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  2. 3.3 97 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  3. 3.3 97 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  4. 2.9 103 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  5. 2.5 115 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  6. 3.2 117 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  7. 2.4 121 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  8. 2.5 107 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  9. 3.4 112 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  10. 3.2 109 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  11. 2.5 103 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  12. 3.2 106 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  13. 4.3 103 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  14. 2.7 116 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  15. 3.1 95 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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