M2.3 earthquake 56 km SE of King Cove, Alaska
A magnitude 2.3 earthquake struck 56 km SE of King Cove, Alaska on Fri, Nov 10, 2017, 2:09 AM AKST (11:09 UTC), 22 km (14 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.7 41 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska. This one was a foreshock.
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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
- 2017-11-10 11:09:52 UTC
- Depth
- 21.9 km (13.6 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 54.727° N, 161.662° 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: 43 in the 60 days after this one and 30 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.620 km SW of King Cove, Alaska · 3247 days ago · 100 km deep · 62 km away
- 3.125 km SW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3247 days ago · 59 km deep · 75 km away
- 2.4114 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 3245 days ago · 13 km deep · 75 km away
- 2.183 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 3244 days ago · 21 km deep · 29 km away
- 3.597 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 3242 days ago · 9 km deep · 45 km away
- 2.5100 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3242 days ago · 7 km deep · 47 km away
- 2.373 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 3242 days ago · 14 km deep · 25 km away
- 2.057 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 3241 days ago · 25 km deep · 77 km away
- 2.987 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 3239 days ago · 13 km deep · 38 km away
- 3.290 km SE of False Pass, Alaska · 3237 days ago · 18 km deep · 84 km away
- 2.666 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 3234 days ago · 30 km deep · 95 km away
- 3.150 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3234 days ago · 73 km deep · 12 km away
- 2.562 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 3229 days ago · 41 km deep · 40 km away
- 2.654 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3228 days ago · 33 km deep · 89 km away
- 2.270 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 3227 days ago · 26 km deep · 62 km away
- 3.180 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 3226 days ago · 19 km deep · 32 km away
- 3.795 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3224 days ago · 24 km deep · 42 km away
- 2.272 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 3223 days ago · 14 km deep · 28 km away
- 1.812 km W of Sand Point, Alaska · 3222 days ago · 70 km deep · 91 km away
- 1.965 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3219 days ago · 26 km deep · 12 km away
- 2.266 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 3218 days ago · 26 km deep · 23 km away
- 2.351 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3215 days ago · 24 km deep · 11 km away
- 1.863 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 3214 days ago · 23 km deep · 78 km away
- 1.962 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 3214 days ago · 26 km deep · 75 km away
- 3.499 km SE of False Pass, Alaska · 3212 days ago · 10 km deep · 86 km away
- 2.276 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 3210 days ago · 26 km deep · 69 km away
- 3.591 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3208 days ago · 15 km deep · 36 km away
- 3.580 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3207 days ago · 21 km deep · 29 km away
- 3.579 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3207 days ago · 23 km deep · 53 km away
- 3.832 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 3204 days ago · 87 km deep · 40 km away
- 4.741 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3204 days ago · 44 km deep · 88 km away · felt by 1
- 2.542 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 3204 days ago · 36 km deep · 87 km away
- 3.429 km SW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3203 days ago · 55 km deep · 71 km away
- 2.495 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3197 days ago · 22 km deep · 56 km away
- 3.4128 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3194 days ago · 27 km deep · 73 km away
- 2.921 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 3194 days ago · 156 km deep · 35 km away
- 2.1Alaska Peninsula · 3193 days ago · 14 km deep · 35 km away
- 2.291 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3192 days ago · 7 km deep · 37 km away
- 2.834 km SW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3190 days ago · 96 km deep · 67 km away
- 1.952 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 3189 days ago · 56 km deep · 19 km away
- 2.559 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 3188 days ago · 74 km deep · 96 km away
- 2.499 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3188 days ago · 10 km deep · 57 km away
- 2.494 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 3188 days ago · 10 km deep · 43 km away
Before
- 1.974 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 3251 days ago · 24 km deep · 25 km away
- 2.6150 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3252 days ago · 18 km deep · 95 km away
- 2.253 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3252 days ago · 25 km deep · 91 km away
- 1.741 km WNW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3254 days ago · 116 km deep · 95 km away
- 1.773 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3254 days ago · 26 km deep · 18 km away
- 3.192 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3254 days ago · 31 km deep · 39 km away
- 2.3110 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3260 days ago · 26 km deep · 55 km away
- 2.699 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 3263 days ago · 26 km deep · 49 km away
- 3.163 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 3263 days ago · 68 km deep · 27 km away
- 2.591 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 3263 days ago · 17 km deep · 41 km away
- 2.282 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3263 days ago · 26 km deep · 33 km away
- 2.597 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 3264 days ago · 18 km deep · 47 km away
- 2.163 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 3264 days ago · 13 km deep · 72 km away
- 2.464 km SSW of King Cove, Alaska · 3266 days ago · 82 km deep · 65 km away
- 2.357 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3266 days ago · 60 km deep · 11 km away
- 2.144 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 3266 days ago · 65 km deep · 21 km away
- 2.441 km ESE of False Pass, Alaska · 3267 days ago · 86 km deep · 73 km away
- 2.587 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3267 days ago · 13 km deep · 34 km away
- 2.150 km SSW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska · 3268 days ago · 159 km deep · 98 km away
- 3.068 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3269 days ago · 26 km deep · 12 km away
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