M1.6 earthquake 36 km WNW of Adak, Alaska
A magnitude 1.6 earthquake struck 36 km WNW of Adak, Alaska on Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 12:49 PM HADT (21:49 UTC), 77 km (48 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.5 62 km ESE of Adak, Alaska. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 1.6 (ML, local (Richter)), micro
- Magnitude from
- Alaska Earthquake Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2018-10-22 21:49:43 UTC
- Depth
- 76.8 km (47.7 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 52.034° N, 177.095° 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
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 164 in the 60 days after this one and 121 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 1.683 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2901 days ago · 13 km deep · 70 km away
- 1.732 km SE of Adak, Alaska · 2901 days ago · 63 km deep · 69 km away
- 1.7125 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2901 days ago · 19 km deep · 98 km away
- 2.446 km ENE of Adak, Alaska · 2900 days ago · 89 km deep · 76 km away
- 1.683 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2900 days ago · 7 km deep · 55 km away
- 1.840 km ENE of Adak, Alaska · 2900 days ago · 4 km deep · 66 km away
- 1.868 km SSW of Adak, Alaska · 2899 days ago · 25 km deep · 79 km away
- 2.363 km SSE of Adak, Alaska · 2899 days ago · 21 km deep · 96 km away
- 2.555 km SE of Adak, Alaska · 2897 days ago · 28 km deep · 90 km away
- 1.972 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2897 days ago · 16 km deep · 69 km away
- 1.968 km E of Adak, Alaska · 2897 days ago · 29 km deep · 100 km away
- 1.881 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2897 days ago · 40 km deep · 64 km away
- 1.627 km S of Adak, Alaska · 2897 days ago · 43 km deep · 52 km away
- 2.053 km SSE of Adak, Alaska · 2897 days ago · 24 km deep · 87 km away
- 2.456 km SE of Adak, Alaska · 2897 days ago · 42 km deep · 90 km away
- 2.651 km ENE of Adak, Alaska · 2897 days ago · 168 km deep · 75 km away
- 1.7125 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2896 days ago · 21 km deep · 99 km away
- 1.864 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2896 days ago · 13 km deep · 35 km away
- 1.855 km S of Adak, Alaska · 2896 days ago · 9 km deep · 81 km away
- 1.882 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2896 days ago · 0 km deep · 53 km away
- 1.9124 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2895 days ago · 13 km deep · 99 km away
- 1.8117 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2895 days ago · 25 km deep · 99 km away
- 1.7125 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2895 days ago · 16 km deep · 97 km away
- 1.8122 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2895 days ago · 13 km deep · 98 km away
- 2.1Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 2895 days ago · 71 km deep · 38 km away
- 2.037 km ESE of Adak, Alaska · 2894 days ago · 65 km deep · 73 km away
- 1.7125 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2894 days ago · 23 km deep · 98 km away
- 1.6124 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2894 days ago · 12 km deep · 99 km away
- 1.8124 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2894 days ago · 10 km deep · 98 km away
- 1.7124 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2894 days ago · 13 km deep · 99 km away
- 1.7125 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2894 days ago · 7 km deep · 100 km away
- 2.1125 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2894 days ago · 8 km deep · 100 km away
- 1.950 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2894 days ago · 23 km deep · 54 km away
- 1.942 km ENE of Adak, Alaska · 2894 days ago · 7 km deep · 69 km away
- 2.5104 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2894 days ago · 41 km deep · 93 km away
- 1.7102 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2894 days ago · 50 km deep · 93 km away
- 1.6Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 2893 days ago · 63 km deep · 88 km away
- 1.653 km SSE of Adak, Alaska · 2893 days ago · 22 km deep · 87 km away
- 2.390 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2893 days ago · 69 km deep · 70 km away
- 1.563 km SSW of Adak, Alaska · 2893 days ago · 49 km deep · 75 km away
- 1.8118 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2893 days ago · 69 km deep · 93 km away
- 1.59 km N of Adak, Alaska · 2892 days ago · 84 km deep · 33 km away
- 1.752 km SSE of Adak, Alaska · 2892 days ago · 24 km deep · 85 km away
- 1.685 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2892 days ago · 40 km deep · 69 km away
- 1.9124 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2892 days ago · 17 km deep · 98 km away
- 1.7125 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2892 days ago · 9 km deep · 100 km away
- 2.15 km NE of Adak, Alaska · 2891 days ago · 81 km deep · 39 km away
- 2.2125 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2891 days ago · 7 km deep · 100 km away
- 2.349 km SE of Adak, Alaska · 2891 days ago · 26 km deep · 84 km away
- 2.269 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2891 days ago · 48 km deep · 52 km away
- 2.390 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2890 days ago · 34 km deep · 77 km away
- 1.6103 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2890 days ago · 34 km deep · 87 km away
- 1.688 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2889 days ago · 27 km deep · 72 km away
- 2.016 km NNW of Adak, Alaska · 2889 days ago · 84 km deep · 25 km away
- 1.6122 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2889 days ago · 13 km deep · 94 km away
- 1.8100 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2889 days ago · 47 km deep · 86 km away
- 2.278 km NE of Adak, Alaska · 2889 days ago · 181 km deep · 96 km away
- 1.668 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2889 days ago · 54 km deep · 66 km away
- 2.4118 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2889 days ago · 27 km deep · 98 km away
- 2.266 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2888 days ago · 74 km deep · 37 km away
The first 60 of 164.
Before
- 1.823 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2901 days ago · 73 km deep · 29 km away
- 1.831 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2902 days ago · 63 km deep · 42 km away
- 1.940 km ENE of Adak, Alaska · 2903 days ago · 6 km deep · 66 km away
- 2.571 km S of Adak, Alaska · 2903 days ago · 35 km deep · 90 km away
- 1.787 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2904 days ago · 35 km deep · 81 km away
- 1.938 km SSE of Adak, Alaska · 2904 days ago · 45 km deep · 71 km away
- 1.762 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2904 days ago · 43 km deep · 69 km away
- 1.984 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2904 days ago · 16 km deep · 71 km away
- 1.952 km SE of Adak, Alaska · 2904 days ago · 37 km deep · 87 km away
- 1.925 km SSW of Adak, Alaska · 2904 days ago · 62 km deep · 44 km away
- 1.637 km SSW of Adak, Alaska · 2904 days ago · 58 km deep · 59 km away
- 2.0124 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2904 days ago · 16 km deep · 99 km away
- 1.8124 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2905 days ago · 12 km deep · 99 km away
- 2.1Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 2905 days ago · 85 km deep · 79 km away
- 2.526 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2905 days ago · 69 km deep · 25 km away
- 2.097 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2906 days ago · 40 km deep · 94 km away
- 2.072 km SSW of Adak, Alaska · 2907 days ago · 20 km deep · 83 km away
- 2.869 km SSW of Adak, Alaska · 2907 days ago · 42 km deep · 78 km away
- 2.551 km S of Adak, Alaska · 2908 days ago · 46 km deep · 75 km away
- 2.457 km SSE of Adak, Alaska · 2908 days ago · 41 km deep · 90 km away
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