A powerful, magnitude-7.0 earthquake has struck in a remote area near the border between Alaska and the Canadian territory of Yukon on Saturday

A magnitude 7 earthquake has rocked Alaska on Saturday, Dec. 6, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

There were no immediate reports of major damage, but the state transportation department said it would survey roads, bridges and other infrastructure.

This sensor, one of 52 — half of them in Homer, half in Kodiak — that Quigley and other Alaska Earthquake Center scientists had installed a month earlier, now contained data from the thousand or so Southcentral Alaska earthquakes that occurred from early October to mid-November 2025.

Alaska was rocked by a major, magnitude-7.0 earthquake on Saturday. The quake’s epicenter was reported to be in a remote area near the border between Alaska and Canada. It struck at 11:41 a.m. local time.

An enormous earthquake has rattled the North American continent, with tremors being felt across the US-Canada border.

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Yukoners felt what turned out to be a couple of earthquakes over the weekend. The first on Saturday afternoon near the Yukon-Alaska border. Earthquakes Canada registered the event as a 7.0 magnitude earthquake and on Sunday,