M3.9 earthquake 85 km SSW of Adak, Alaska
A magnitude 3.9 earthquake struck 85 km SSW of Adak, Alaska on Tue, Dec 25, 2018, 10:07 AM HAST (20:07 UTC), 10 km (6 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
- 3.9 (mb, body-wave), minor
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2018-12-25 20:07:23 UTC
- Depth
- 10.0 km (6.2 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 51.124° N, 176.915° 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.
- Location uncertainty
- About 16.9 km horizontally, 2.0 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.07
- Depth from
- Operator assigned
- Station coverage gap
- 324°, poorly surrounded by stations
- Stations used
- 65
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 176 in the 60 days after this one and 59 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.1100 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2838 days ago · 25 km deep · 74 km away
- 2.660 km SE of Adak, Alaska · 2837 days ago · 48 km deep · 69 km away
- 2.160 km ESE of Adak, Alaska · 2836 days ago · 48 km deep · 99 km away
- 2.1114 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2836 days ago · 67 km deep · 99 km away
- 3.9118 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2836 days ago · 35 km deep · 87 km away
- 2.0127 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2835 days ago · 33 km deep · 86 km away
- 1.665 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2835 days ago · 23 km deep · 65 km away
- 2.6182 km S of Adak, Alaska · 2835 days ago · 33 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.556 km SE of Adak, Alaska · 2834 days ago · 31 km deep · 68 km away
- 2.2Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 2834 days ago · 25 km deep · 60 km away
- 2.964 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2833 days ago · 49 km deep · 58 km away
- 2.520 km SSE of Adak, Alaska · 2833 days ago · 53 km deep · 72 km away
- 1.959 km SSE of Adak, Alaska · 2833 days ago · 13 km deep · 63 km away
- 2.581 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2832 days ago · 42 km deep · 56 km away
- 3.762 km SE of Adak, Alaska · 2832 days ago · 35 km deep · 73 km away
- 3.078 km SE of Adak, Alaska · 2832 days ago · 35 km deep · 67 km away
- 2.573 km SSE of Adak, Alaska · 2832 days ago · 35 km deep · 64 km away
- 3.069 km SSE of Adak, Alaska · 2832 days ago · 35 km deep · 62 km away
- 2.7109 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2831 days ago · 35 km deep · 70 km away
- 2.1102 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2831 days ago · 55 km deep · 72 km away
- 1.658 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2830 days ago · 48 km deep · 65 km away
- 1.8136 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2830 days ago · 18 km deep · 90 km away
- 1.831 km S of Adak, Alaska · 2830 days ago · 45 km deep · 56 km away
- 2.554 km S of Adak, Alaska · 2829 days ago · 35 km deep · 34 km away
- 1.992 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2829 days ago · 44 km deep · 59 km away
- 2.060 km SE of Adak, Alaska · 2828 days ago · 21 km deep · 63 km away
- 2.154 km SE of Adak, Alaska · 2828 days ago · 23 km deep · 65 km away
- 5.9Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 2827 days ago · 30 km deep · 87 km away · felt by 4 · tsunami flag
- 3.8124 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2827 days ago · 45 km deep · 85 km away
- 2.7Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 2827 days ago · 35 km deep · 87 km away
- 2.6130 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2827 days ago · 35 km deep · 86 km away
- 3.2127 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2827 days ago · 32 km deep · 86 km away
- 4.3128 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2827 days ago · 45 km deep · 91 km away
- 2.9130 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2827 days ago · 26 km deep · 90 km away
- 2.4121 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2827 days ago · 69 km deep · 85 km away
- 4.0134 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2827 days ago · 42 km deep · 90 km away
- 2.4124 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2827 days ago · 13 km deep · 81 km away
- 2.5133 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2827 days ago · 28 km deep · 88 km away
- 2.7131 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2827 days ago · 35 km deep · 87 km away
- 2.4127 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2827 days ago · 54 km deep · 90 km away
- 2.5132 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2827 days ago · 35 km deep · 88 km away
- 2.8137 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2827 days ago · 33 km deep · 93 km away
- 2.6132 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2827 days ago · 26 km deep · 89 km away
- 2.6131 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2827 days ago · 35 km deep · 85 km away
- 2.4123 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2827 days ago · 49 km deep · 84 km away
- 2.7127 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2827 days ago · 29 km deep · 82 km away
- 2.5135 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2827 days ago · 35 km deep · 90 km away
- 2.254 km ESE of Adak, Alaska · 2827 days ago · 61 km deep · 95 km away
- 2.4122 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2827 days ago · 46 km deep · 88 km away
- 2.4123 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2827 days ago · 28 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.0122 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2826 days ago · 48 km deep · 93 km away
- 1.8125 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2826 days ago · 50 km deep · 86 km away
- 3.9131 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2826 days ago · 35 km deep · 87 km away
- 2.3125 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2826 days ago · 59 km deep · 91 km away
- 2.3129 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2826 days ago · 26 km deep · 84 km away
- 2.1131 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2826 days ago · 46 km deep · 91 km away
- 5.1124 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2826 days ago · 35 km deep · 87 km away
- 2.5138 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2826 days ago · 28 km deep · 88 km away
- 2.394 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2826 days ago · 45 km deep · 92 km away
- 2.3130 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2826 days ago · 35 km deep · 89 km away
The first 60 of 176.
Before
- 2.4120 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2838 days ago · 51 km deep · 94 km away
- 2.063 km SE of Adak, Alaska · 2840 days ago · 30 km deep · 66 km away
- 1.757 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2840 days ago · 22 km deep · 46 km away
- 1.761 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2841 days ago · 65 km deep · 71 km away
- 1.9Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 2842 days ago · 34 km deep · 62 km away
- 1.837 km SSW of Adak, Alaska · 2842 days ago · 45 km deep · 51 km away
- 1.937 km SSW of Adak, Alaska · 2842 days ago · 21 km deep · 52 km away
- 2.156 km SSE of Adak, Alaska · 2842 days ago · 23 km deep · 56 km away
- 2.9134 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2843 days ago · 34 km deep · 92 km away
- 1.9111 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2843 days ago · 46 km deep · 96 km away
- 1.561 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 2844 days ago · 16 km deep · 57 km away
- 3.244 km SSE of Adak, Alaska · 2844 days ago · 28 km deep · 58 km away
- 1.797 km S of Adak, Alaska · 2845 days ago · 16 km deep · 16 km away
- 1.899 km S of Adak, Alaska · 2845 days ago · 16 km deep · 18 km away
- 2.0110 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2845 days ago · 53 km deep · 84 km away
- 1.688 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2845 days ago · 30 km deep · 70 km away
- 1.690 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2848 days ago · 42 km deep · 76 km away
- 1.632 km SSW of Adak, Alaska · 2848 days ago · 38 km deep · 54 km away
- 1.9106 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 2848 days ago · 61 km deep · 83 km away
- 1.736 km SSE of Adak, Alaska · 2848 days ago · 46 km deep · 57 km away
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