The earthquake registered 6.0 on the moment magnitude scale and had a maximum Mercalli intensity of IV (Light).

[1] Although there were no injuries or deaths, there were significant disruptions to Internet and telecommunications throughout Southeast Alaska, including to major telecom providers Alaska Communications Systems (ACS) and AT&T wireless, Internet and other communication systems.

[4] The earthquake caused widespread outages to telecommunications in Southeast Alaska.

Businesses in the area were unable to process credit card transactions, and many local websites were inaccessible.

[5] Outages were caused by damage to undersea fiber-optic cable serving the area.