M2.6 earthquake 256 km W of Adak, Alaska
A magnitude 2.6 earthquake struck 256 km W of Adak, Alaska on Wed, Oct 19, 2016, 5:14 AM GMT+12 (17:14 UTC), 193 km (120 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.3 Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. This one was a foreshock.
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Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 2.6 (ML, local (Richter)), micro
- Magnitude from
- Alaska Earthquake Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2016-10-18 17:14:04 UTC
- Depth
- 192.5 km (119.6 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 51.838° N, 179.642° E
- 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
- 18
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 69 in the 60 days after this one and 42 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.0227 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3637 days ago · 8 km deep · 87 km away
- 1.9Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3637 days ago · 20 km deep · 88 km away
- 2.1Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3636 days ago · 60 km deep · 91 km away
- 2.2Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3635 days ago · 60 km deep · 61 km away
- 2.3Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3635 days ago · 96 km deep · 67 km away
- 2.7271 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3634 days ago · 34 km deep · 54 km away
- 2.7Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3634 days ago · 95 km deep · 72 km away
- 2.2Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3632 days ago · 7 km deep · 91 km away
- 2.5167 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3632 days ago · 13 km deep · 89 km away
- 2.5Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3629 days ago · 64 km deep · 76 km away
- 2.4Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3628 days ago · 111 km deep · 83 km away
- 2.9Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3628 days ago · 99 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.1289 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3627 days ago · 146 km deep · 54 km away
- 4.3Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3627 days ago · 102 km deep · 81 km away
- 2.7Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3622 days ago · 107 km deep · 83 km away
- 2.4282 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3622 days ago · 88 km deep · 27 km away
- 2.5Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3622 days ago · 141 km deep · 99 km away
- 2.7184 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3622 days ago · 177 km deep · 73 km away
- 3.0175 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3617 days ago · 11 km deep · 83 km away
- 2.4Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3616 days ago · 109 km deep · 90 km away
- 2.4Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3615 days ago · 62 km deep · 79 km away
- 2.8271 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3615 days ago · 61 km deep · 42 km away
- 4.0276 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3611 days ago · 141 km deep · 21 km away
- 3.0Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3611 days ago · 14 km deep · 99 km away
- 3.0Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3611 days ago · 29 km deep · 99 km away
- 2.3227 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3611 days ago · 23 km deep · 82 km away
- 4.1Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3611 days ago · 41 km deep · 95 km away
- 3.4Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3610 days ago · 34 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.4Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3610 days ago · 42 km deep · 94 km away
- 2.7Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3610 days ago · 68 km deep · 86 km away
- 2.8Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3610 days ago · 11 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.2185 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3610 days ago · 24 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.9Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3610 days ago · 36 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.2231 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3609 days ago · 17 km deep · 89 km away
- 3.0256 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3609 days ago · 155 km deep · 10 km away
- 3.0Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3608 days ago · 111 km deep · 70 km away
- 3.0254 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3608 days ago · 157 km deep · 20 km away
- 4.3177 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3606 days ago · 89 km deep · 79 km away
- 3.4211 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3606 days ago · 10 km deep · 51 km away
- 2.8182 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3601 days ago · 97 km deep · 75 km away
- 5.2229 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3601 days ago · 94 km deep · 32 km away
- 2.3Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3598 days ago · 78 km deep · 48 km away
- 2.2Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3597 days ago · 47 km deep · 61 km away
- 2.5Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3597 days ago · 90 km deep · 70 km away
- 1.8286 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3596 days ago · 31 km deep · 53 km away
- 1.8167 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3596 days ago · 9 km deep · 90 km away
- 5.3Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3594 days ago · 100 km deep · 83 km away · tsunami flag
- 2.3245 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3594 days ago · 21 km deep · 80 km away
- 3.0283 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3593 days ago · 10 km deep · 100 km away
- 2.9272 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3593 days ago · 12 km deep · 79 km away
- 2.2211 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3592 days ago · 26 km deep · 90 km away
- 2.4270 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3592 days ago · 67 km deep · 31 km away
- 2.7262 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3590 days ago · 17 km deep · 74 km away
- 2.5280 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3590 days ago · 4 km deep · 95 km away
- 2.7272 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3588 days ago · 60 km deep · 46 km away
- 2.0197 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3588 days ago · 22 km deep · 92 km away
- 3.8278 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3588 days ago · 74 km deep · 45 km away
- 2.9Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3588 days ago · 133 km deep · 91 km away
- 3.9Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3588 days ago · 24 km deep · 84 km away
- 2.3176 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3586 days ago · 97 km deep · 82 km away
The first 60 of 69.
Before
- 2.3168 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3637 days ago · 9 km deep · 88 km away
- 2.0252 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3639 days ago · 5 km deep · 53 km away
- 1.8259 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3640 days ago · 5 km deep · 9 km away
- 4.2250 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3640 days ago · 184 km deep · 27 km away
- 2.5286 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3641 days ago · 14 km deep · 100 km away
- 2.9277 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3641 days ago · 187 km deep · 35 km away
- 2.8Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3643 days ago · 115 km deep · 75 km away
- 2.9211 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3644 days ago · 88 km deep · 49 km away
- 2.6264 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3647 days ago · 60 km deep · 45 km away
- 3.3Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3650 days ago · 26 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.6Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3651 days ago · 112 km deep · 83 km away
- 3.8219 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3651 days ago · 83 km deep · 42 km away
- 2.7Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3651 days ago · 36 km deep · 98 km away
- 3.9Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3651 days ago · 102 km deep · 85 km away
- 2.4264 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3652 days ago · 59 km deep · 50 km away
- 3.0185 km WNW of Adak, Alaska · 3652 days ago · 237 km deep · 91 km away
- 2.6Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3652 days ago · 128 km deep · 96 km away
- 2.7Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3652 days ago · 94 km deep · 85 km away
- 2.8192 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3653 days ago · 79 km deep · 80 km away
- 2.5268 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3655 days ago · 67 km deep · 31 km away
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