M2.3 earthquake 69 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska
A magnitude 2.3 earthquake struck 69 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska on Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 12:06 AM AKST (09:06 UTC), 14 km (8 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.1 81 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 2.3 (ML, local (Richter)), micro
- Magnitude from
- Alaska Earthquake Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2016-11-30 09:06:57 UTC
- Depth
- 13.6 km (8.5 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 55.186° N, 159.442° 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
- 12
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 33 in the 60 days after this one and 16 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.181 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3595 days ago · 13 km deep · 70 km away
- 2.677 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3594 days ago · 34 km deep · 51 km away
- 2.329 km SSW of Perryville, Alaska · 3589 days ago · 60 km deep · 53 km away
- 2.443 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3588 days ago · 5 km deep · 25 km away
- 2.219 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3586 days ago · 5 km deep · 73 km away
- 2.143 km SSW of Ivanof Bay, Alaska · 3585 days ago · 13 km deep · 48 km away
- 2.878 km S of Perryville, Alaska · 3582 days ago · 40 km deep · 16 km away
- 2.555 km SE of Perryville, Alaska · 3581 days ago · 32 km deep · 77 km away
- 2.524 km NE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3580 days ago · 70 km deep · 63 km away
- 2.529 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 3579 days ago · 10 km deep · 67 km away
- 2.662 km SE of Perryville, Alaska · 3576 days ago · 13 km deep · 69 km away
- 3.2100 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3576 days ago · 6 km deep · 74 km away
- 2.4117 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska · 3575 days ago · 26 km deep · 57 km away
- 3.4127 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska · 3575 days ago · 18 km deep · 70 km away
- 1.860 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3573 days ago · 13 km deep · 93 km away
- 2.171 km S of Perryville, Alaska · 3573 days ago · 16 km deep · 23 km away
- 3.093 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3570 days ago · 41 km deep · 61 km away
- 2.375 km S of Perryville, Alaska · 3569 days ago · 13 km deep · 23 km away
- 2.045 km S of Ivanof Bay, Alaska · 3568 days ago · 21 km deep · 34 km away
- 1.915 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska · 3566 days ago · 67 km deep · 70 km away
- 3.431 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3566 days ago · 13 km deep · 37 km away
- 2.085 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3559 days ago · 15 km deep · 39 km away
- 3.711 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3555 days ago · 71 km deep · 62 km away
- 2.449 km SE of Perryville, Alaska · 3554 days ago · 49 km deep · 70 km away
- 1.623 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3553 days ago · 53 km deep · 47 km away
- 1.657 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 3553 days ago · 21 km deep · 86 km away
- 2.58 km N of Sand Point, Alaska · 3549 days ago · 62 km deep · 71 km away
- 2.568 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3548 days ago · 20 km deep · 54 km away
- 2.155 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3546 days ago · 13 km deep · 14 km away
- 2.567 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3545 days ago · 30 km deep · 66 km away
- 2.25 km WSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3544 days ago · 67 km deep · 73 km away
- 3.379 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3540 days ago · 14 km deep · 57 km away
- 2.323 km E of Perryville, Alaska · 3540 days ago · 59 km deep · 91 km away
Before
- 2.7132 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3596 days ago · 22 km deep · 78 km away
- 2.3122 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3596 days ago · 23 km deep · 67 km away
- 3.2131 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3596 days ago · 15 km deep · 77 km away
- 2.163 km S of Perryville, Alaska · 3600 days ago · 44 km deep · 26 km away
- 2.253 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 3601 days ago · 41 km deep · 80 km away
- 4.4113 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3603 days ago · 31 km deep · 82 km away
- 2.459 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3604 days ago · 40 km deep · 26 km away
- 3.085 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3608 days ago · 13 km deep · 62 km away
- 1.829 km SW of Ivanof Bay, Alaska · 3609 days ago · 13 km deep · 62 km away
- 2.3Alaska Peninsula · 3614 days ago · 24 km deep · 62 km away
- 2.653 km S of Perryville, Alaska · 3617 days ago · 12 km deep · 30 km away
- 2.678 km SE of Perryville, Alaska · 3620 days ago · 10 km deep · 70 km away
- 3.179 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3621 days ago · 9 km deep · 11 km away
- 2.964 km SE of Perryville, Alaska · 3622 days ago · 25 km deep · 69 km away
- 2.170 km S of Ivanof Bay, Alaska · 3622 days ago · 47 km deep · 15 km away
- 2.29 km NE of Ivanof Bay, Alaska · 3623 days ago · 107 km deep · 87 km away
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