M2.4 earthquake 29 km NW of Atka, Alaska
A magnitude 2.4 earthquake struck 29 km NW of Atka, Alaska on Sat, Jan 2, 2016, 11:40 AM HAST (21:40 UTC), 156 km (97 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.1 88 km E of Adak, 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
- 2.4 (ML, local (Richter)), micro
- Magnitude from
- Alaska Earthquake Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2016-01-02 21:40:00 UTC
- Depth
- 156.0 km (96.9 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 52.378° N, 174.520° 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
- 14
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 88 in the 60 days after this one and 33 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.472 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 3927 days ago · 14 km deep · 99 km away
- 1.961 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 3927 days ago · 19 km deep · 90 km away
- 2.080 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3927 days ago · 42 km deep · 81 km away
- 3.078 km ENE of Atka, Alaska · 3926 days ago · 225 km deep · 91 km away
- 2.377 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3926 days ago · 43 km deep · 81 km away
- 2.243 km E of Atka, Alaska · 3925 days ago · 14 km deep · 69 km away
- 2.367 km ESE of Atka, Alaska · 3925 days ago · 60 km deep · 96 km away
- 5.188 km E of Adak, Alaska · 3924 days ago · 44 km deep · 88 km away · tsunami flag
- 1.829 km E of Atka, Alaska · 3924 days ago · 15 km deep · 56 km away
- 2.759 km NE of Atka, Alaska · 3923 days ago · 169 km deep · 62 km away
- 4.371 km NNW of Atka, Alaska · 3923 days ago · 203 km deep · 46 km away
- 1.554 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3921 days ago · 50 km deep · 64 km away
- 3.374 km E of Adak, Alaska · 3920 days ago · 26 km deep · 84 km away
- 2.8Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3920 days ago · 44 km deep · 87 km away
- 3.971 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3919 days ago · 64 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.023 km W of Atka, Alaska · 3919 days ago · 201 km deep · 18 km away
- 1.942 km SSW of Atka, Alaska · 3919 days ago · 37 km deep · 58 km away
- 2.569 km ESE of Atka, Alaska · 3918 days ago · 44 km deep · 98 km away
- 2.814 km NNW of Atka, Alaska · 3917 days ago · 192 km deep · 19 km away
- 1.683 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3916 days ago · 37 km deep · 91 km away
- 2.456 km NNE of Atka, Alaska · 3915 days ago · 134 km deep · 50 km away
- 3.4Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3915 days ago · 66 km deep · 84 km away
- 1.858 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3912 days ago · 40 km deep · 69 km away
- 2.333 km NE of Atka, Alaska · 3910 days ago · 156 km deep · 47 km away
- 2.970 km S of Atka, Alaska · 3908 days ago · 3 km deep · 94 km away
- 2.275 km E of Adak, Alaska · 3907 days ago · 155 km deep · 89 km away
- 2.377 km NNW of Atka, Alaska · 3906 days ago · 181 km deep · 50 km away
- 1.780 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3906 days ago · 30 km deep · 84 km away
- 3.146 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 3905 days ago · 85 km deep · 75 km away
- 2.575 km NE of Adak, Alaska · 3904 days ago · 173 km deep · 83 km away
- 2.539 km WNW of Atka, Alaska · 3904 days ago · 182 km deep · 13 km away
- 2.197 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3903 days ago · 32 km deep · 100 km away
- 2.554 km SSW of Atka, Alaska · 3903 days ago · 52 km deep · 67 km away
- 2.958 km ENE of Adak, Alaska · 3903 days ago · 85 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.668 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3903 days ago · 64 km deep · 70 km away
- 2.662 km N of Atka, Alaska · 3901 days ago · 184 km deep · 46 km away
- 2.551 km S of Atka, Alaska · 3901 days ago · 177 km deep · 74 km away
- 1.572 km WSW of Atka, Alaska · 3901 days ago · 9 km deep · 66 km away
- 2.864 km SSW of Atka, Alaska · 3901 days ago · 36 km deep · 83 km away
- 2.883 km NNE of Atka, Alaska · 3899 days ago · 201 km deep · 83 km away
- 1.775 km E of Adak, Alaska · 3899 days ago · 29 km deep · 93 km away
- 1.655 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3899 days ago · 14 km deep · 64 km away
- 2.568 km E of Atka, Alaska · 3898 days ago · 158 km deep · 91 km away
- 2.587 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3898 days ago · 42 km deep · 89 km away
- 2.676 km WSW of Atka, Alaska · 3896 days ago · 92 km deep · 68 km away
- 2.175 km S of Atka, Alaska · 3896 days ago · 22 km deep · 100 km away
- 2.455 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 3893 days ago · 20 km deep · 84 km away
- 2.352 km SE of Atka, Alaska · 3893 days ago · 63 km deep · 83 km away
- 1.748 km SSW of Atka, Alaska · 3893 days ago · 54 km deep · 63 km away
- 3.085 km NE of Atka, Alaska · 3891 days ago · 220 km deep · 93 km away
- 2.193 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3890 days ago · 41 km deep · 96 km away
- 1.575 km SSW of Atka, Alaska · 3889 days ago · 18 km deep · 87 km away
- 2.348 km NW of Atka, Alaska · 3887 days ago · 208 km deep · 19 km away
- 2.010 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 3887 days ago · 103 km deep · 40 km away
- 2.582 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3886 days ago · 45 km deep · 88 km away
- 1.565 km WSW of Atka, Alaska · 3886 days ago · 64 km deep · 65 km away
- 3.068 km ESE of Atka, Alaska · 3886 days ago · 66 km deep · 96 km away
- 2.050 km ESE of Atka, Alaska · 3885 days ago · 5 km deep · 78 km away
- 2.674 km NE of Adak, Alaska · 3885 days ago · 208 km deep · 85 km away
- 2.843 km NNW of Atka, Alaska · 3884 days ago · 193 km deep · 25 km away
The first 60 of 88.
Before
- 2.368 km E of Adak, Alaska · 3929 days ago · 33 km deep · 100 km away
- 2.769 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 3929 days ago · 40 km deep · 97 km away
- 4.189 km ESE of Adak, Alaska · 3931 days ago · 35 km deep · 97 km away
- 3.240 km SSW of Atka, Alaska · 3932 days ago · 25 km deep · 60 km away
- 1.948 km S of Atka, Alaska · 3932 days ago · 49 km deep · 69 km away
- 2.250 km ESE of Atka, Alaska · 3932 days ago · 66 km deep · 79 km away
- 2.411 km NE of Atka, Alaska · 3932 days ago · 156 km deep · 32 km away
- 2.521 km SSW of Atka, Alaska · 3934 days ago · 91 km deep · 44 km away
- 2.496 km ESE of Adak, Alaska · 3935 days ago · 40 km deep · 97 km away
- 4.061 km ENE of Atka, Alaska · 3937 days ago · 186 km deep · 75 km away
- 2.512 km NNE of Atka, Alaska · 3937 days ago · 5 km deep · 27 km away
- 1.930 km WNW of Atka, Alaska · 3940 days ago · 14 km deep · 12 km away
- 1.958 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3940 days ago · 54 km deep · 59 km away
- 2.572 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 3944 days ago · 37 km deep · 98 km away
- 2.8100 km NW of Atka, Alaska · 3944 days ago · 221 km deep · 71 km away
- 2.271 km SSW of Atka, Alaska · 3946 days ago · 38 km deep · 83 km away
- 4.679 km SSW of Atka, Alaska · 3947 days ago · 48 km deep · 94 km away
- 3.3Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3949 days ago · 64 km deep · 51 km away
- 2.069 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 3951 days ago · 54 km deep · 71 km away
- 1.665 km WSW of Atka, Alaska · 3952 days ago · 66 km deep · 61 km away
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