M1.8 earthquake 29 km ESE of Adak, Alaska
A magnitude 1.8 earthquake struck 29 km ESE of Adak, Alaska on Sat, Feb 20, 2016, 9:53 PM HAST (07:53 UTC), 58 km (36 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M3.9 Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 1.8 (ML, local (Richter)), micro
- Magnitude from
- Alaska Earthquake Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2016-02-21 07:53:51 UTC
- Depth
- 57.9 km (36.0 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 51.736° N, 176.272° W
- Region
- Alaska
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Did you feel it?
No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Stations used
- 13
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 151 in the 60 days after this one and 59 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.592 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3879 days ago · 41 km deep · 67 km away
- 2.269 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3879 days ago · 42 km deep · 91 km away
- 2.642 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 3879 days ago · 49 km deep · 57 km away
- 1.880 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3878 days ago · 13 km deep · 99 km away
- 1.858 km SSE of Adak, Alaska · 3878 days ago · 33 km deep · 37 km away
- 2.386 km E of Adak, Alaska · 3877 days ago · 67 km deep · 61 km away
- 1.740 km S of Adak, Alaska · 3877 days ago · 32 km deep · 40 km away
- 2.338 km ESE of Adak, Alaska · 3876 days ago · 73 km deep · 13 km away
- 2.741 km SSW of Adak, Alaska · 3875 days ago · 25 km deep · 47 km away
- 1.767 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3875 days ago · 55 km deep · 87 km away
- 2.479 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3875 days ago · 26 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.564 km SE of Adak, Alaska · 3875 days ago · 43 km deep · 35 km away
- 1.748 km ENE of Adak, Alaska · 3874 days ago · 14 km deep · 34 km away
- 1.773 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3874 days ago · 26 km deep · 89 km away
- 1.629 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 3874 days ago · 42 km deep · 43 km away
- 3.059 km SE of Adak, Alaska · 3873 days ago · 47 km deep · 33 km away
- 1.856 km WSW of Atka, Alaska · 3873 days ago · 73 km deep · 95 km away
- 1.716 km ESE of Adak, Alaska · 3873 days ago · 65 km deep · 13 km away
- 1.739 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3873 days ago · 59 km deep · 62 km away
- 1.577 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3872 days ago · 27 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.311 km WNW of Adak, Alaska · 3872 days ago · 76 km deep · 41 km away
- 1.815 km SE of Adak, Alaska · 3871 days ago · 63 km deep · 15 km away
- 1.823 km SSW of Adak, Alaska · 3871 days ago · 49 km deep · 34 km away
- 1.867 km ENE of Adak, Alaska · 3871 days ago · 156 km deep · 58 km away
- 2.485 km ESE of Adak, Alaska · 3871 days ago · 55 km deep · 56 km away
- 2.992 km ESE of Adak, Alaska · 3871 days ago · 52 km deep · 63 km away
- 1.787 km ESE of Adak, Alaska · 3871 days ago · 59 km deep · 58 km away
- 1.796 km SE of Adak, Alaska · 3871 days ago · 26 km deep · 68 km away
- 2.089 km ESE of Adak, Alaska · 3871 days ago · 59 km deep · 60 km away
- 2.665 km SSW of Adak, Alaska · 3870 days ago · 31 km deep · 68 km away
- 2.659 km SE of Adak, Alaska · 3869 days ago · 48 km deep · 32 km away
- 1.870 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3869 days ago · 59 km deep · 91 km away
- 1.596 km ESE of Adak, Alaska · 3869 days ago · 34 km deep · 67 km away
- 1.681 km ESE of Adak, Alaska · 3868 days ago · 51 km deep · 53 km away
- 3.289 km ESE of Adak, Alaska · 3868 days ago · 50 km deep · 62 km away
- 1.931 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3868 days ago · 75 km deep · 55 km away
- 1.9Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3867 days ago · 143 km deep · 42 km away
- 2.059 km W of Atka, Alaska · 3867 days ago · 110 km deep · 96 km away
- 1.916 km SSE of Adak, Alaska · 3867 days ago · 72 km deep · 19 km away
- 2.479 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3867 days ago · 26 km deep · 96 km away
- 1.979 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3866 days ago · 45 km deep · 96 km away
- 2.585 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3866 days ago · 41 km deep · 75 km away
- 2.468 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3866 days ago · 26 km deep · 87 km away
- 1.879 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3866 days ago · 25 km deep · 95 km away
- 1.760 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3866 days ago · 33 km deep · 96 km away
- 2.079 km SSE of Adak, Alaska · 3863 days ago · 20 km deep · 62 km away
- 2.179 km SSE of Adak, Alaska · 3863 days ago · 40 km deep · 62 km away
- 2.163 km ESE of Adak, Alaska · 3863 days ago · 49 km deep · 35 km away
- 2.254 km SSE of Adak, Alaska · 3860 days ago · 17 km deep · 33 km away
- 2.068 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3860 days ago · 39 km deep · 86 km away
- 2.685 km E of Adak, Alaska · 3860 days ago · 220 km deep · 65 km away
- 1.661 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 3859 days ago · 31 km deep · 77 km away
- 1.873 km ESE of Adak, Alaska · 3859 days ago · 27 km deep · 45 km away
- 1.791 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3859 days ago · 25 km deep · 79 km away
- 2.8100 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3858 days ago · 15 km deep · 83 km away
- 2.175 km SE of Adak, Alaska · 3858 days ago · 25 km deep · 48 km away
- 3.643 km E of Adak, Alaska · 3857 days ago · 64 km deep · 21 km away
- 2.573 km SSE of Adak, Alaska · 3856 days ago · 40 km deep · 49 km away
- 2.552 km SSE of Adak, Alaska · 3856 days ago · 24 km deep · 37 km away
- 2.882 km WSW of Atka, Alaska · 3855 days ago · 72 km deep · 69 km away
The first 60 of 151.
Before
- 2.255 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3879 days ago · 58 km deep · 76 km away
- 4.6101 km ESE of Adak, Alaska · 3880 days ago · 26 km deep · 73 km away
- 2.382 km ESE of Adak, Alaska · 3880 days ago · 50 km deep · 53 km away
- 1.963 km ESE of Adak, Alaska · 3880 days ago · 40 km deep · 34 km away
- 1.974 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3880 days ago · 26 km deep · 99 km away
- 1.876 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3880 days ago · 30 km deep · 93 km away
- 3.075 km E of Adak, Alaska · 3881 days ago · 152 km deep · 56 km away
- 2.279 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3882 days ago · 26 km deep · 98 km away
- 3.997 km ESE of Adak, Alaska · 3883 days ago · 21 km deep · 69 km away
- 1.620 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 3883 days ago · 31 km deep · 38 km away
- 1.566 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3884 days ago · 20 km deep · 86 km away
- 2.674 km NE of Adak, Alaska · 3884 days ago · 208 km deep · 69 km away
- 2.054 km ENE of Adak, Alaska · 3885 days ago · 172 km deep · 42 km away
- 3.220 km ENE of Adak, Alaska · 3885 days ago · 77 km deep · 28 km away
- 1.565 km WSW of Atka, Alaska · 3885 days ago · 64 km deep · 89 km away
- 1.661 km SSE of Adak, Alaska · 3886 days ago · 15 km deep · 42 km away
- 2.330 km N of Adak, Alaska · 3886 days ago · 98 km deep · 52 km away
- 1.542 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 3886 days ago · 36 km deep · 56 km away
- 2.582 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3886 days ago · 45 km deep · 89 km away
- 1.844 km S of Adak, Alaska · 3887 days ago · 24 km deep · 36 km away
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