M2.5 earthquake 74 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska
A magnitude 2.5 earthquake struck 74 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska on Sat, May 27, 2017, 6:38 PM AKDT (02:38 UTC), 19 km (12 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M3.6 83 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 2.5 (ML, local (Richter)), micro
- Magnitude from
- Alaska Earthquake Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2017-05-28 02:38:19 UTC
- Depth
- 19.4 km (12.1 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 55.112° N, 159.394° 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
- 16
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 45 in the 60 days after this one and 26 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.253 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3413 days ago · 23 km deep · 90 km away
- 1.522 km WSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3413 days ago · 59 km deep · 94 km away
- 1.731 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3409 days ago · 11 km deep · 86 km away
- 2.056 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 3409 days ago · 23 km deep · 83 km away
- 2.061 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 3408 days ago · 20 km deep · 89 km away
- 1.928 km SE of Perryville, Alaska · 3401 days ago · 51 km deep · 81 km away
- 2.361 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3400 days ago · 26 km deep · 55 km away
- 1.731 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3400 days ago · 14 km deep · 84 km away
- 1.533 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3400 days ago · 8 km deep · 87 km away
- 3.267 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3399 days ago · 14 km deep · 11 km away
- 2.351 km E of Sand Point, Alaska · 3393 days ago · 5 km deep · 29 km away
- 2.375 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3393 days ago · 7 km deep · 25 km away
- 2.449 km E of Sand Point, Alaska · 3392 days ago · 53 km deep · 29 km away
- 3.010 km WNW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3392 days ago · 71 km deep · 85 km away
- 1.958 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3392 days ago · 22 km deep · 63 km away
- 1.872 km E of Sand Point, Alaska · 3389 days ago · 21 km deep · 12 km away
- 2.637 km NE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3389 days ago · 80 km deep · 73 km away
- 1.959 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 3389 days ago · 21 km deep · 88 km away
- 1.526 km SW of Ivanof Bay, Alaska · 3389 days ago · 15 km deep · 70 km away
- 2.030 km S of Perryville, Alaska · 3389 days ago · 53 km deep · 61 km away
- 1.930 km SW of Ivanof Bay, Alaska · 3383 days ago · 13 km deep · 69 km away
- 3.029 km SE of Perryville, Alaska · 3382 days ago · 49 km deep · 74 km away
- 1.856 km S of Ivanof Bay, Alaska · 3381 days ago · 28 km deep · 32 km away
- 1.98 km WSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3381 days ago · 55 km deep · 80 km away
- 3.563 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3381 days ago · 26 km deep · 52 km away
- 2.147 km SE of Perryville, Alaska · 3378 days ago · 36 km deep · 66 km away
- 2.09 km NNW of Ivanof Bay, Alaska · 3377 days ago · 108 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.131 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3374 days ago · 5 km deep · 83 km away
- 2.922 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3372 days ago · 52 km deep · 75 km away
- 1.635 km SW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3371 days ago · 64 km deep · 96 km away
- 2.352 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3371 days ago · 61 km deep · 23 km away
- 2.063 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 3369 days ago · 33 km deep · 79 km away
- 1.766 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3368 days ago · 27 km deep · 31 km away
- 2.070 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3367 days ago · 11 km deep · 65 km away
- 1.538 km SSE of Ivanof Bay, Alaska · 3365 days ago · 5 km deep · 51 km away
- 2.2Alaska Peninsula · 3363 days ago · 52 km deep · 75 km away
- 2.75 km S of Ivanof Bay, Alaska · 3362 days ago · 93 km deep · 83 km away
- 3.01 km WNW of Ivanof Bay, Alaska · 3362 days ago · 100 km deep · 89 km away
- 2.464 km S of Perryville, Alaska · 3362 days ago · 51 km deep · 31 km away
- 1.764 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 3358 days ago · 13 km deep · 86 km away
- 3.129 km E of Sand Point, Alaska · 3357 days ago · 69 km deep · 47 km away
- 3.683 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3356 days ago · 25 km deep · 47 km away
- 2.040 km ENE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3356 days ago · 63 km deep · 48 km away
- 2.284 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska · 3355 days ago · 48 km deep · 51 km away
- 2.5102 km SE of Perryville, Alaska · 3355 days ago · 25 km deep · 81 km away
Before
- 2.073 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3416 days ago · 16 km deep · 11 km away
- 1.886 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska · 3421 days ago · 26 km deep · 55 km away
- 1.958 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3423 days ago · 41 km deep · 25 km away
- 1.864 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3424 days ago · 21 km deep · 13 km away
- 2.674 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3426 days ago · 2 km deep · 30 km away
- 2.746 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3426 days ago · 25 km deep · 60 km away
- 3.1121 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska · 3428 days ago · 29 km deep · 64 km away
- 2.367 km SE of Perryville, Alaska · 3428 days ago · 34 km deep · 71 km away
- 2.249 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 3428 days ago · 45 km deep · 74 km away
- 2.658 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 3429 days ago · 26 km deep · 82 km away
- 1.937 km S of Perryville, Alaska · 3430 days ago · 49 km deep · 53 km away
- 2.255 km E of Sand Point, Alaska · 3431 days ago · 5 km deep · 34 km away
- 1.960 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3432 days ago · 15 km deep · 47 km away
- 2.048 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3433 days ago · 24 km deep · 63 km away
- 2.063 km SE of Perryville, Alaska · 3434 days ago · 20 km deep · 66 km away
- 2.357 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 3435 days ago · 15 km deep · 87 km away
- 1.860 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3435 days ago · 13 km deep · 91 km away
- 1.824 km NNW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3436 days ago · 72 km deep · 91 km away
- 2.6108 km S of Perryville, Alaska · 3437 days ago · 18 km deep · 35 km away
- 2.697 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3439 days ago · 17 km deep · 28 km away
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