M2.4 earthquake 95 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska
A magnitude 2.4 earthquake struck 95 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska on Sun, Dec 31, 2017, 12:26 AM AKST (09:26 UTC), 22 km (13 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M3.8 97 km SSE 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
- 2.4 (ML, local (Richter)), micro
- Magnitude from
- Alaska Earthquake Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2017-12-31 09:26:16 UTC
- Depth
- 21.5 km (13.4 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 54.511° N, 160.885° 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: 52 in the 60 days after this one and 21 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 3.4128 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3194 days ago · 27 km deep · 37 km away
- 2.993 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3194 days ago · 22 km deep · 89 km away
- 2.795 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3194 days ago · 17 km deep · 67 km away
- 2.921 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 3193 days ago · 156 km deep · 89 km away
- 2.1Alaska Peninsula · 3192 days ago · 14 km deep · 46 km away
- 2.957 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3192 days ago · 9 km deep · 86 km away
- 2.291 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3192 days ago · 7 km deep · 35 km away
- 2.834 km SW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3190 days ago · 96 km deep · 72 km away
- 1.952 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 3189 days ago · 56 km deep · 60 km away
- 2.499 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3188 days ago · 10 km deep · 4 km away
- 2.494 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 3188 days ago · 10 km deep · 44 km away
- 2.647 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 3186 days ago · 56 km deep · 85 km away
- 2.245 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3186 days ago · 34 km deep · 59 km away
- 2.167 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 3184 days ago · 17 km deep · 56 km away
- 3.586 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3182 days ago · 28 km deep · 25 km away
- 2.057 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3181 days ago · 30 km deep · 84 km away
- 2.291 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3181 days ago · 25 km deep · 22 km away
- 2.055 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 3180 days ago · 14 km deep · 50 km away
- 2.794 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3180 days ago · 14 km deep · 37 km away
- 2.262 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 3180 days ago · 26 km deep · 66 km away
- 3.1104 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 3178 days ago · 4 km deep · 43 km away
- 2.050 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3178 days ago · 13 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.048 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 3178 days ago · 5 km deep · 88 km away
- 2.987 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3178 days ago · 21 km deep · 19 km away
- 3.487 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3177 days ago · 57 km deep · 41 km away
- 2.489 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3177 days ago · 8 km deep · 39 km away
- 3.133 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3177 days ago · 65 km deep · 64 km away
- 2.686 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3176 days ago · 22 km deep · 42 km away
- 2.178 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 3172 days ago · 16 km deep · 33 km away
- 2.361 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 3171 days ago · 26 km deep · 69 km away
- 2.161 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3170 days ago · 13 km deep · 34 km away
- 3.197 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3165 days ago · 7 km deep · 22 km away
- 2.955 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 3164 days ago · 31 km deep · 65 km away
- 2.938 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3163 days ago · 67 km deep · 74 km away
- 3.053 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3163 days ago · 14 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.243 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3159 days ago · 56 km deep · 72 km away
- 2.178 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3159 days ago · 9 km deep · 47 km away
- 2.130 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3159 days ago · 77 km deep · 66 km away
- 2.294 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 3159 days ago · 25 km deep · 59 km away
- 2.395 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 3158 days ago · 5 km deep · 44 km away
- 2.6100 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 3156 days ago · 11 km deep · 53 km away
- 2.7104 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 3156 days ago · 10 km deep · 52 km away
- 2.5110 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 3156 days ago · 11 km deep · 54 km away
- 2.9102 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 3156 days ago · 12 km deep · 53 km away
- 2.8103 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 3153 days ago · 10 km deep · 57 km away
- 2.4107 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 3150 days ago · 23 km deep · 59 km away
- 2.547 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3148 days ago · 76 km deep · 67 km away
- 2.969 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3147 days ago · 22 km deep · 44 km away
- 2.943 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 3143 days ago · 74 km deep · 67 km away
- 3.258 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3143 days ago · 31 km deep · 60 km away
- 1.937 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3142 days ago · 13 km deep · 58 km away
- 3.897 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3141 days ago · 23 km deep · 78 km away
Before
- 3.984 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3198 days ago · 35 km deep · 58 km away
- 3.429 km SW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3203 days ago · 55 km deep · 72 km away
- 2.542 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 3204 days ago · 36 km deep · 60 km away
- 4.741 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3204 days ago · 44 km deep · 61 km away · felt by 1
- 3.832 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 3204 days ago · 87 km deep · 94 km away
- 3.579 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 3206 days ago · 23 km deep · 16 km away
- 3.580 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3207 days ago · 21 km deep · 47 km away
- 3.591 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3208 days ago · 15 km deep · 30 km away
- 2.276 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 3209 days ago · 26 km deep · 24 km away
- 3.6132 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3213 days ago · 18 km deep · 94 km away
- 3.8129 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3213 days ago · 23 km deep · 96 km away
- 1.962 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 3213 days ago · 26 km deep · 39 km away
- 1.863 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 3214 days ago · 23 km deep · 40 km away
- 2.351 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3215 days ago · 24 km deep · 64 km away
- 2.266 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 3218 days ago · 26 km deep · 60 km away
- 1.965 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3219 days ago · 26 km deep · 49 km away
- 1.812 km W of Sand Point, Alaska · 3221 days ago · 70 km deep · 92 km away
- 2.272 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 3222 days ago · 14 km deep · 58 km away
- 2.480 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 3223 days ago · 27 km deep · 72 km away
- 3.795 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 3224 days ago · 24 km deep · 38 km away
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