M2.1 earthquake 183 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
A magnitude 2.1 earthquake struck 183 km WSW of Adak, Alaska on Mon, Dec 17, 2018, 3:28 PM HAST (01:28 UTC), 28 km (18 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.9 Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 2.1 (ML, local (Richter)), micro
- Magnitude from
- Alaska Earthquake Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2018-12-18 01:28:53 UTC
- Depth
- 28.4 km (17.6 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 51.375° N, 179.153° 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
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 154 in the 60 days after this one and 56 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 3.7220 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2845 days ago · 35 km deep · 39 km away
- 1.688 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2845 days ago · 30 km deep · 98 km away
- 3.8219 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2845 days ago · 10 km deep · 46 km away
- 2.9186 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2845 days ago · 32 km deep · 20 km away
- 2.0110 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2845 days ago · 53 km deep · 77 km away
- 2.0142 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2843 days ago · 33 km deep · 41 km away
- 2.4178 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2843 days ago · 58 km deep · 6 km away
- 1.9111 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2843 days ago · 46 km deep · 72 km away
- 2.9134 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2842 days ago · 34 km deep · 67 km away
- 1.6128 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2842 days ago · 14 km deep · 62 km away
- 2.0123 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2842 days ago · 13 km deep · 62 km away
- 3.6127 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2842 days ago · 3 km deep · 57 km away
- 2.8Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 2841 days ago · 1 km deep · 61 km away
- 2.0110 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2841 days ago · 17 km deep · 72 km away
- 2.9122 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2841 days ago · 10 km deep · 62 km away
- 2.0125 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2840 days ago · 16 km deep · 60 km away
- 1.9128 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2840 days ago · 26 km deep · 58 km away
- 1.5117 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2840 days ago · 59 km deep · 65 km away
- 1.6123 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2840 days ago · 24 km deep · 66 km away
- 1.5128 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2839 days ago · 10 km deep · 66 km away
- 1.9126 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2839 days ago · 28 km deep · 63 km away
- 1.9127 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2839 days ago · 14 km deep · 57 km away
- 1.7121 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2839 days ago · 19 km deep · 64 km away
- 2.5125 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2838 days ago · 15 km deep · 63 km away
- 2.4120 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2838 days ago · 51 km deep · 67 km away
- 1.8132 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2838 days ago · 55 km deep · 50 km away
- 2.8124 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2837 days ago · 5 km deep · 59 km away
- 1.8123 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2837 days ago · 22 km deep · 68 km away
- 2.5123 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2837 days ago · 7 km deep · 62 km away
- 2.1100 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2837 days ago · 25 km deep · 89 km away
- 1.9124 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2837 days ago · 13 km deep · 60 km away
- 2.9125 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2836 days ago · 6 km deep · 58 km away
- 1.8126 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2836 days ago · 19 km deep · 61 km away
- 2.1114 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2835 days ago · 67 km deep · 69 km away
- 3.9118 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2835 days ago · 35 km deep · 72 km away
- 2.3124 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2835 days ago · 13 km deep · 62 km away
- 1.9124 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2835 days ago · 13 km deep · 63 km away
- 2.0127 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2835 days ago · 33 km deep · 72 km away
- 1.9138 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2835 days ago · 22 km deep · 57 km away
- 2.3124 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2835 days ago · 9 km deep · 59 km away
- 2.6123 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2833 days ago · 13 km deep · 63 km away
- 4.0215 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2833 days ago · 170 km deep · 73 km away
- 2.0126 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2832 days ago · 13 km deep · 59 km away
- 2.0123 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2831 days ago · 13 km deep · 67 km away
- 2.7109 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2830 days ago · 35 km deep · 89 km away
- 2.1102 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2830 days ago · 55 km deep · 89 km away
- 2.0110 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2829 days ago · 31 km deep · 72 km away
- 1.8136 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2829 days ago · 18 km deep · 71 km away
- 1.9140 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2829 days ago · 37 km deep · 42 km away
- 1.5125 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2828 days ago · 25 km deep · 63 km away
- 1.6125 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2827 days ago · 13 km deep · 59 km away
- 1.9124 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2826 days ago · 26 km deep · 66 km away
- 5.9Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 2826 days ago · 30 km deep · 72 km away · felt by 4 · tsunami flag
- 3.8124 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2826 days ago · 45 km deep · 73 km away
- 2.7Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 2826 days ago · 35 km deep · 76 km away
- 2.6130 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2826 days ago · 35 km deep · 73 km away
- 3.2127 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2826 days ago · 32 km deep · 72 km away
- 4.3128 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2826 days ago · 45 km deep · 67 km away
- 2.9130 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2826 days ago · 26 km deep · 68 km away
- 2.4121 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2826 days ago · 69 km deep · 73 km away
The first 60 of 154.
Before
- 1.5123 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2845 days ago · 19 km deep · 68 km away
- 2.1144 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2846 days ago · 20 km deep · 59 km away
- 2.5130 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2847 days ago · 127 km deep · 83 km away
- 1.7124 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2847 days ago · 14 km deep · 62 km away
- 1.690 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2847 days ago · 42 km deep · 94 km away
- 2.4169 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2847 days ago · 59 km deep · 16 km away
- 1.9152 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2847 days ago · 40 km deep · 47 km away
- 1.9106 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2847 days ago · 61 km deep · 80 km away
- 2.6198 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2849 days ago · 14 km deep · 58 km away
- 2.2107 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2849 days ago · 36 km deep · 89 km away
- 1.9153 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2849 days ago · 30 km deep · 39 km away
- 2.0130 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2849 days ago · 29 km deep · 54 km away
- 1.998 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2849 days ago · 60 km deep · 89 km away
- 1.7134 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2850 days ago · 21 km deep · 56 km away
- 2.4122 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2850 days ago · 13 km deep · 66 km away
- 1.6126 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2850 days ago · 20 km deep · 59 km away
- 2.8119 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2850 days ago · 18 km deep · 85 km away
- 1.8122 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2851 days ago · 11 km deep · 62 km away
- 1.8126 km W of Adak, Alaska · 2851 days ago · 20 km deep · 63 km away
- 1.7119 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2854 days ago · 36 km deep · 63 km away
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