M2.4 earthquake 239 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
A magnitude 2.4 earthquake struck 239 km WSW of Adak, Alaska on Sun, Jan 15, 2017, 6:11 AM GMT-12 (18:11 UTC), 17 km (10 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
- 2.4 (ML, local (Richter)), micro
- Magnitude from
- Alaska Earthquake Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2017-01-15 18:11:49 UTC
- Depth
- 16.5 km (10.3 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 51.052° N, 179.815° 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: 38 in the 60 days after this one and 26 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.7173 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 3548 days ago · 36 km deep · 84 km away
- 2.8159 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3548 days ago · 45 km deep · 85 km away
- 2.5155 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3547 days ago · 41 km deep · 87 km away
- 5.1222 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3545 days ago · 52 km deep · 17 km away
- 2.7240 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3545 days ago · 26 km deep · 20 km away
- 3.3218 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3540 days ago · 8 km deep · 56 km away
- 2.5298 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3538 days ago · 23 km deep · 67 km away
- 2.6278 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3537 days ago · 11 km deep · 43 km away
- 2.2148 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3536 days ago · 32 km deep · 91 km away
- 2.3197 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3530 days ago · 55 km deep · 45 km away
- 2.1166 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3529 days ago · 24 km deep · 73 km away
- 3.8269 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3526 days ago · 89 km deep · 65 km away
- 2.7274 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3522 days ago · 16 km deep · 43 km away
- 2.7Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3521 days ago · 34 km deep · 88 km away
- 2.3275 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3520 days ago · 58 km deep · 73 km away
- 2.8187 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3520 days ago · 21 km deep · 51 km away
- 1.9178 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3518 days ago · 9 km deep · 88 km away
- 2.5266 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3518 days ago · 59 km deep · 63 km away
- 2.3173 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3517 days ago · 26 km deep · 68 km away
- 2.1168 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3517 days ago · 13 km deep · 98 km away
- 2.3257 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3515 days ago · 7 km deep · 38 km away
- 2.2178 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3515 days ago · 74 km deep · 80 km away
- 2.0244 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3514 days ago · 19 km deep · 28 km away
- 2.5172 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3511 days ago · 47 km deep · 67 km away
- 2.4248 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3506 days ago · 26 km deep · 9 km away
- 2.4191 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3505 days ago · 53 km deep · 51 km away
- 2.3159 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3505 days ago · 21 km deep · 82 km away
- 2.5215 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3500 days ago · 104 km deep · 83 km away
- 2.9251 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3493 days ago · 37 km deep · 39 km away
- 4.9Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3489 days ago · 30 km deep · 77 km away
- 5.6Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3489 days ago · 19 km deep · 78 km away · tsunami flag
- 4.1Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3489 days ago · 20 km deep · 90 km away
- 3.0Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3489 days ago · 25 km deep · 79 km away
- 2.2Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3489 days ago · 22 km deep · 81 km away
- 2.5Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3489 days ago · 23 km deep · 77 km away
- 2.6Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3489 days ago · 18 km deep · 82 km away
- 2.0Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3489 days ago · 19 km deep · 85 km away
- 2.6Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3488 days ago · 27 km deep · 99 km away
Before
- 2.2Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3549 days ago · 32 km deep · 84 km away
- 2.7295 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3550 days ago · 19 km deep · 63 km away
- 2.1152 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3552 days ago · 64 km deep · 91 km away
- 4.0252 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3553 days ago · 37 km deep · 14 km away
- 2.4Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 3553 days ago · 37 km deep · 92 km away
- 2.2235 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3554 days ago · 47 km deep · 45 km away
- 3.9178 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3555 days ago · 40 km deep · 64 km away
- 2.9253 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3555 days ago · 65 km deep · 63 km away
- 3.3250 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3556 days ago · 26 km deep · 44 km away
- 2.7240 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3562 days ago · 16 km deep · 5 km away
- 2.4221 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3562 days ago · 59 km deep · 33 km away
- 2.7231 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3563 days ago · 41 km deep · 29 km away
- 2.3145 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3563 days ago · 45 km deep · 93 km away
- 3.0248 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3568 days ago · 7 km deep · 9 km away
- 2.5202 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3568 days ago · 61 km deep · 54 km away
- 2.9213 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3569 days ago · 27 km deep · 26 km away
- 2.3216 km W of Adak, Alaska · 3571 days ago · 47 km deep · 90 km away
- 2.4280 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3571 days ago · 9 km deep · 46 km away
- 2.2295 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3571 days ago · 11 km deep · 62 km away
- 2.6292 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 3572 days ago · 15 km deep · 57 km away
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