M2.3 earthquake 288 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
A magnitude 2.3 earthquake struck 288 km WSW of Adak, Alaska on Thu, Aug 3, 2017, 2:32 PM GMT+12 (02:32 UTC), 18 km (11 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.8 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
- 2017-08-03 02:32:01 UTC
- Depth
- 18.4 km (11.4 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 51.111° N, 179.402° 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
- 13
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 107 in the 60 days after this one and 47 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.1Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3348 days ago · 107 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.7Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3348 days ago · 69 km deep · 88 km away
- 3.9230 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3347 days ago · 97 km deep · 74 km away
- 2.3Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3345 days ago · 76 km deep · 69 km away
- 4.5Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3345 days ago · 44 km deep · 53 km away
- 1.9Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3345 days ago · 31 km deep · 57 km away
- 1.9Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3345 days ago · 91 km deep · 92 km away
- 1.6Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3345 days ago · 46 km deep · 72 km away
- 1.5Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3345 days ago · 30 km deep · 57 km away
- 1.7299 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3345 days ago · 13 km deep · 51 km away
- 2.2Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3345 days ago · 59 km deep · 76 km away
- 2.3291 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3344 days ago · 91 km deep · 73 km away
- 1.8191 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3344 days ago · 48 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.1215 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3344 days ago · 14 km deep · 87 km away
- 1.5203 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3344 days ago · 26 km deep · 85 km away
- 1.9Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3342 days ago · 55 km deep · 95 km away
- 1.7Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3341 days ago · 1 km deep · 86 km away
- 1.7212 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3341 days ago · 55 km deep · 76 km away
- 1.8Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3341 days ago · 10 km deep · 43 km away
- 1.8Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3341 days ago · 30 km deep · 50 km away
- 3.3Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3340 days ago · 16 km deep · 46 km away
- 2.5Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3339 days ago · 10 km deep · 39 km away
- 3.8211 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3339 days ago · 52 km deep · 76 km away
- 1.9238 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3339 days ago · 87 km deep · 77 km away
- 1.9210 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3339 days ago · 58 km deep · 82 km away
- 2.4257 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3338 days ago · 56 km deep · 47 km away
- 2.2244 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3338 days ago · 6 km deep · 56 km away
- 2.1276 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3337 days ago · 16 km deep · 14 km away
- 2.6291 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3337 days ago · 30 km deep · 21 km away
- 2.8283 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3337 days ago · 22 km deep · 11 km away
- 2.0Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3335 days ago · 81 km deep · 81 km away
- 2.1202 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3335 days ago · 61 km deep · 91 km away
- 3.5249 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3334 days ago · 2 km deep · 65 km away
- 2.0Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3334 days ago · 42 km deep · 39 km away
- 2.5260 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3334 days ago · 35 km deep · 46 km away
- 2.2249 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3333 days ago · 17 km deep · 39 km away
- 2.0Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3333 days ago · 81 km deep · 82 km away
- 2.7Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3333 days ago · 16 km deep · 52 km away
- 4.8Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3333 days ago · 29 km deep · 39 km away
- 2.5Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3333 days ago · 5 km deep · 47 km away
- 2.4Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3333 days ago · 13 km deep · 43 km away
- 2.3Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3332 days ago · 6 km deep · 44 km away
- 2.2Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3332 days ago · 13 km deep · 44 km away
- 2.1Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3332 days ago · 14 km deep · 44 km away
- 1.9Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3332 days ago · 46 km deep · 56 km away
- 3.1277 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3330 days ago · 30 km deep · 26 km away
- 2.0Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3330 days ago · 80 km deep · 80 km away
- 1.8229 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3329 days ago · 17 km deep · 59 km away
- 4.0Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3329 days ago · 25 km deep · 46 km away
- 2.0292 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3329 days ago · 18 km deep · 5 km away
- 2.7215 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3329 days ago · 16 km deep · 74 km away
- 2.3Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3328 days ago · 25 km deep · 59 km away
- 2.9Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3328 days ago · 53 km deep · 80 km away
- 4.4244 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3328 days ago · 10 km deep · 52 km away
- 3.2Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3327 days ago · 19 km deep · 31 km away
- 2.3238 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3327 days ago · 25 km deep · 52 km away
- 2.4262 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3327 days ago · 79 km deep · 68 km away
- 1.7Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3326 days ago · 36 km deep · 54 km away
- 3.1Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3326 days ago · 56 km deep · 50 km away
- 2.4201 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3325 days ago · 58 km deep · 88 km away
The first 60 of 107.
Before
- 2.0198 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3350 days ago · 13 km deep · 92 km away
- 3.5252 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3350 days ago · 92 km deep · 72 km away
- 2.5Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3350 days ago · 28 km deep · 88 km away
- 1.9Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3350 days ago · 32 km deep · 55 km away
- 2.4220 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3350 days ago · 68 km deep · 71 km away
- 1.9Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3351 days ago · 77 km deep · 83 km away
- 2.0294 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3351 days ago · 33 km deep · 11 km away
- 2.5246 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3353 days ago · 27 km deep · 43 km away
- 2.3Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3354 days ago · 81 km deep · 91 km away
- 1.7210 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3356 days ago · 13 km deep · 89 km away
- 2.2265 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3356 days ago · 58 km deep · 41 km away
- 2.5248 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3356 days ago · 22 km deep · 49 km away
- 2.4Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3357 days ago · 20 km deep · 49 km away
- 2.8296 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3357 days ago · 23 km deep · 9 km away
- 2.3Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3357 days ago · 69 km deep · 73 km away
- 2.8254 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3358 days ago · 77 km deep · 55 km away
- 1.9Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3359 days ago · 28 km deep · 55 km away
- 1.8208 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3360 days ago · 70 km deep · 86 km away
- 2.0Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3360 days ago · 14 km deep · 52 km away
- 1.7Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3360 days ago · 21 km deep · 76 km away
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