Alaska earthquakes

M4.4 earthquake 89 km W of Adak, Alaska

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck 89 km W of Adak, Alaska on Mon, Jan 23, 2017, 11:56 PM HAST (09:56 UTC), 10 km (6 mi) below the surface.

A larger quake followed: M4.6 Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. This one was a foreshock.

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The earthquake

Magnitude: 4.4 (mb, body-wave), light
Magnitude from: USGS National Earthquake Information Center
Local time: Mon, Jan 23, 2017, 11:56 PM HAST
UTC: 2017-01-24 09:56:15 UTC
Depth: 10.0 km (6.2 mi), shallow
Epicenter: 51.761° N, 177.923° W
Region: Alaska
Strongest shaking: III, weak shaking
Tsunami flag: No
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

Magnitude estimates

Different scales measure different things and differ by a few tenths. The USGS marks one as preferred, and it is the one this page uses.

Mag.	Scale	Computed by	Notes
4.4	mb, body-wave	USGS National Earthquake Information Center	Preferred · Reviewed · ±0.048 · 126 stations
4.4	mb, body-wave	Alaska Earthquake Center	Preliminary

Shaking

The USGS ShakeMap: shaking estimated from seismic stations and the quake’s size, on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale.

Strongest estimated: III, weak shaking
Map: Automatic

USGS ShakeMap: estimated shaking intensity around the epicenter — Estimated shaking intensity. Map: USGS ShakeMap.

Did you feel it?

No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.

How well it is located

Reviewed by a seismologist.

Location uncertainty: About 6.4 km horizontally, 1.9 km in depth
Magnitude uncertainty: ±0.05
Depth from: Operator assigned
Station coverage gap: 116°
Stations used: 163

Nearby

Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 179 in the 60 days after this one and 93 in the 30 days before it.

After

The first 60 of 179.

Before

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Sources

From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us10007v53 (also filed as ak15142394, ak01713ul9fg). Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 9:02 AM UTC.