M2.1 earthquake 16 km SW of False Pass, Alaska
A magnitude 2.1 earthquake struck 16 km SW of False Pass, Alaska on Fri, Mar 25, 2016, 1:42 PM AKDT (21:42 UTC), 18 km (11 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.0 97 km SE of False Pass, Alaska. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 2.1 (ML, local (Richter)), micro
- Magnitude from
- Alaska Earthquake Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2016-03-25 21:42:29 UTC
- Depth
- 17.7 km (11.0 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 54.760° N, 163.607° 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
- 15
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 40 in the 60 days after this one and 26 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.344 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 3844 days ago · 70 km deep · 44 km away
- 2.468 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 3841 days ago · 26 km deep · 85 km away
- 2.382 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 3834 days ago · 4 km deep · 86 km away
- 2.278 km ENE of Akutan, Alaska · 3833 days ago · 79 km deep · 80 km away
- 2.186 km E of Akutan, Alaska · 3833 days ago · 64 km deep · 90 km away
- 2.250 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 3832 days ago · 18 km deep · 35 km away
- 2.799 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 3830 days ago · 29 km deep · 84 km away
- 2.785 km E of Akutan, Alaska · 3830 days ago · 64 km deep · 91 km away
- 2.537 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 3829 days ago · 9 km deep · 28 km away
- 2.477 km E of Akutan, Alaska · 3828 days ago · 71 km deep · 91 km away
- 2.192 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 3826 days ago · 21 km deep · 78 km away
- 2.293 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 3826 days ago · 26 km deep · 78 km away
- 4.097 km SE of False Pass, Alaska · 3825 days ago · 31 km deep · 98 km away
- 2.0Alaska Peninsula · 3825 days ago · 49 km deep · 89 km away
- 2.656 km SSW of King Cove, Alaska · 3824 days ago · 13 km deep · 69 km away
- 2.589 km SE of False Pass, Alaska · 3816 days ago · 37 km deep · 90 km away
- 3.498 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 3814 days ago · 40 km deep · 84 km away
- 2.6109 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 3813 days ago · 44 km deep · 96 km away
- 2.840 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 3811 days ago · 89 km deep · 90 km away
- 3.784 km W of False Pass, Alaska · 3811 days ago · 187 km deep · 71 km away
- 2.429 km SW of King Cove, Alaska · 3809 days ago · 109 km deep · 61 km away
- 2.150 km W of False Pass, Alaska · 3805 days ago · 104 km deep · 40 km away
- 2.069 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 3804 days ago · 67 km deep · 54 km away
- 2.759 km SW of False Pass, Alaska · 3804 days ago · 73 km deep · 44 km away
- 2.8108 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 3799 days ago · 25 km deep · 99 km away
- 2.376 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 3798 days ago · 55 km deep · 87 km away
- 2.838 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 3797 days ago · 78 km deep · 33 km away
- 3.569 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 3796 days ago · 50 km deep · 65 km away
- 2.3110 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 3796 days ago · 26 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.1108 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 3796 days ago · 55 km deep · 94 km away
- 2.629 km WSW of Cold Bay, Alaska · 3794 days ago · 162 km deep · 47 km away
- 2.549 km SSW of King Cove, Alaska · 3794 days ago · 11 km deep · 63 km away
- 2.897 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 3793 days ago · 35 km deep · 93 km away
- 2.290 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 3793 days ago · 22 km deep · 79 km away
- 2.673 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 3792 days ago · 39 km deep · 70 km away
- 2.697 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 3791 days ago · 28 km deep · 93 km away
- 2.455 km W of False Pass, Alaska · 3790 days ago · 148 km deep · 47 km away
- 1.961 km E of Akutan, Alaska · 3790 days ago · 93 km deep · 100 km away
- 2.071 km SE of False Pass, Alaska · 3785 days ago · 75 km deep · 72 km away
- 2.154 km SE of False Pass, Alaska · 3785 days ago · 58 km deep · 57 km away
Before
- 1.8Unimak Island region, Alaska · 3845 days ago · 62 km deep · 59 km away
- 2.099 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 3845 days ago · 64 km deep · 85 km away
- 2.398 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 3846 days ago · 26 km deep · 87 km away
- 4.572 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 3847 days ago · 53 km deep · 72 km away
- 2.462 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 3847 days ago · 61 km deep · 52 km away
- 4.184 km NW of Cold Bay, Alaska · 3848 days ago · 183 km deep · 99 km away
- 2.268 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 3848 days ago · 39 km deep · 58 km away
- 2.494 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 3849 days ago · 19 km deep · 82 km away
- 2.815 km N of False Pass, Alaska · 3849 days ago · 161 km deep · 29 km away
- 1.941 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 3853 days ago · 82 km deep · 27 km away
- 3.351 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 3856 days ago · 28 km deep · 86 km away
- 3.491 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 3858 days ago · 32 km deep · 76 km away
- 2.151 km SE of False Pass, Alaska · 3859 days ago · 62 km deep · 56 km away
- 2.196 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 3861 days ago · 14 km deep · 91 km away
- 2.853 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 3864 days ago · 74 km deep · 50 km away
- 3.596 km SE of False Pass, Alaska · 3864 days ago · 27 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.094 km E of Akutan, Alaska · 3866 days ago · 58 km deep · 89 km away
- 2.381 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 3868 days ago · 56 km deep · 68 km away
- 2.581 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 3868 days ago · 49 km deep · 70 km away
- 2.371 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 3869 days ago · 54 km deep · 57 km away
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