M2.3 earthquake 257 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
A magnitude 2.3 earthquake struck 257 km WSW of Adak, Alaska on Sat, Feb 18, 2017, 2:41 PM GMT+12 (02:41 UTC), 7 km (4 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.6 Rat 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
- 2.3 (ML, local (Richter)), micro
- Magnitude from
- Alaska Earthquake Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2017-02-18 02:41:08 UTC
- Depth
- 7.1 km (4.4 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 51.278° N, 179.783° 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
- 17
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 52 in the 60 days after this one and 22 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.2178 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3514 days ago · 74 km deep · 82 km away
- 2.0244 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3513 days ago · 19 km deep · 13 km away
- 2.5172 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3510 days ago · 47 km deep · 88 km away
- 2.4248 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3505 days ago · 26 km deep · 36 km away
- 2.4191 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3505 days ago · 53 km deep · 66 km away
- 2.3159 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3505 days ago · 21 km deep · 98 km away
- 3.2286 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3504 days ago · 74 km deep · 69 km away
- 2.4Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3503 days ago · 17 km deep · 90 km away
- 3.0Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3501 days ago · 49 km deep · 67 km away
- 2.5215 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3499 days ago · 104 km deep · 66 km away
- 2.9251 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3492 days ago · 37 km deep · 7 km away
- 2.5201 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3489 days ago · 182 km deep · 90 km away
- 4.9Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3488 days ago · 30 km deep · 51 km away
- 5.6Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3488 days ago · 19 km deep · 54 km away · tsunami flag
- 4.1Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3488 days ago · 20 km deep · 64 km away
- 3.0Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3488 days ago · 25 km deep · 49 km away
- 2.2Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3488 days ago · 22 km deep · 52 km away
- 2.9Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3488 days ago · 24 km deep · 70 km away
- 2.5Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3488 days ago · 23 km deep · 48 km away
- 2.6Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3488 days ago · 18 km deep · 52 km away
- 2.0Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3488 days ago · 19 km deep · 54 km away
- 2.6Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3487 days ago · 27 km deep · 66 km away
- 2.5Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3485 days ago · 126 km deep · 94 km away
- 2.4Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3484 days ago · 20 km deep · 54 km away
- 2.1165 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3483 days ago · 19 km deep · 91 km away
- 2.1298 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3482 days ago · 69 km deep · 69 km away
- 1.6Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3481 days ago · 9 km deep · 85 km away
- 3.9208 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3479 days ago · 65 km deep · 99 km away
- 2.8202 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3477 days ago · 29 km deep · 65 km away
- 2.7292 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3476 days ago · 18 km deep · 38 km away
- 2.3193 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3476 days ago · 66 km deep · 63 km away
- 2.6299 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3472 days ago · 21 km deep · 56 km away
- 4.0271 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3472 days ago · 145 km deep · 49 km away
- 2.4245 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3471 days ago · 5 km deep · 37 km away
- 2.1193 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3471 days ago · 6 km deep · 82 km away
- 1.9214 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3470 days ago · 72 km deep · 51 km away
- 2.1277 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3470 days ago · 24 km deep · 21 km away
- 1.6Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3469 days ago · 13 km deep · 88 km away
- 2.3192 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3469 days ago · 19 km deep · 68 km away
- 2.7Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3469 days ago · 20 km deep · 45 km away
- 1.7265 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3469 days ago · 76 km deep · 53 km away
- 2.0209 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3468 days ago · 86 km deep · 80 km away
- 2.4Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3468 days ago · 13 km deep · 80 km away
- 2.3225 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3465 days ago · 95 km deep · 57 km away
- 2.2190 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3465 days ago · 23 km deep · 88 km away
- 2.3Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3464 days ago · 60 km deep · 61 km away
- 3.8197 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3462 days ago · 92 km deep · 71 km away
- 2.6183 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3462 days ago · 73 km deep · 76 km away
- 2.5Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3460 days ago · 91 km deep · 100 km away
- 2.3259 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3456 days ago · 86 km deep · 49 km away
- 1.8192 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3456 days ago · 22 km deep · 64 km away
- 2.3256 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3454 days ago · 7 km deep · 14 km away
Before
- 4.3Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3515 days ago · 103 km deep · 81 km away
- 2.1168 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3516 days ago · 13 km deep · 98 km away
- 2.3173 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3516 days ago · 26 km deep · 84 km away
- 2.5266 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3517 days ago · 59 km deep · 25 km away
- 2.0Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3518 days ago · 79 km deep · 93 km away
- 1.9178 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3518 days ago · 9 km deep · 87 km away
- 2.0170 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3518 days ago · 22 km deep · 99 km away
- 2.4Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3518 days ago · 25 km deep · 95 km away
- 2.8187 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3519 days ago · 21 km deep · 75 km away
- 2.3275 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3519 days ago · 58 km deep · 36 km away
- 2.4Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3519 days ago · 13 km deep · 70 km away
- 2.7Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3520 days ago · 34 km deep · 61 km away
- 2.7274 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3521 days ago · 16 km deep · 19 km away
- 3.8269 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3525 days ago · 89 km deep · 27 km away
- 2.1166 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3528 days ago · 24 km deep · 95 km away
- 2.3197 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3529 days ago · 55 km deep · 60 km away
- 2.6278 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3536 days ago · 11 km deep · 28 km away
- 2.5298 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3537 days ago · 23 km deep · 42 km away
- 2.9Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3539 days ago · 85 km deep · 84 km away
- 3.3218 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3540 days ago · 8 km deep · 44 km away
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