M2.3 earthquake 139 km S of False Pass, Alaska
A magnitude 2.3 earthquake struck 139 km S of False Pass, Alaska on Sat, Nov 17, 2018, 2:49 PM AKST (23:49 UTC), 36 km (22 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M3.9 157 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska. This one was a foreshock.
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Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 2.3 (ml), micro
- Local time
- UTC
- 2018-11-17 23:49:17 UTC
- Depth
- 35.9 km (22.3 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 53.616° N, 163.040° 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
- 19
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 49 in the 60 days after this one and 23 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.5105 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2873 days ago · 10 km deep · 61 km away
- 2.479 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2873 days ago · 17 km deep · 61 km away
- 3.380 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2872 days ago · 70 km deep · 94 km away
- 3.9157 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska · 2872 days ago · 25 km deep · 47 km away
- 2.197 km E of Akutan, Alaska · 2867 days ago · 33 km deep · 94 km away
- 2.2108 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska · 2866 days ago · 26 km deep · 81 km away
- 2.497 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2866 days ago · 46 km deep · 62 km away
- 2.4106 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska · 2866 days ago · 42 km deep · 82 km away
- 2.2104 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2859 days ago · 26 km deep · 52 km away
- 2.486 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2859 days ago · 14 km deep · 54 km away
- 2.7124 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2854 days ago · 10 km deep · 88 km away
- 3.6157 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2852 days ago · 10 km deep · 22 km away
- 2.869 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2851 days ago · 89 km deep · 79 km away
- 2.3113 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2851 days ago · 26 km deep · 65 km away
- 2.6163 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska · 2851 days ago · 26 km deep · 48 km away
- 2.3104 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska · 2850 days ago · 62 km deep · 84 km away
- 2.593 km SE of False Pass, Alaska · 2847 days ago · 8 km deep · 69 km away
- 2.4106 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2845 days ago · 26 km deep · 59 km away
- 2.6109 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2842 days ago · 15 km deep · 45 km away
- 3.8111 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska · 2841 days ago · 53 km deep · 77 km away
- 2.5106 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2840 days ago · 25 km deep · 52 km away
- 2.7149 km SE of Akutan, Alaska · 2839 days ago · 22 km deep · 85 km away
- 2.9141 km SE of Akutan, Alaska · 2839 days ago · 28 km deep · 86 km away
- 2.274 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2838 days ago · 18 km deep · 65 km away
- 3.6172 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2837 days ago · 10 km deep · 47 km away
- 2.8167 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2837 days ago · 21 km deep · 42 km away
- 2.596 km SE of False Pass, Alaska · 2835 days ago · 37 km deep · 72 km away
- 2.589 km SE of False Pass, Alaska · 2835 days ago · 21 km deep · 75 km away
- 2.7150 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2833 days ago · 26 km deep · 28 km away
- 2.9161 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2831 days ago · 26 km deep · 44 km away
- 2.089 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2829 days ago · 13 km deep · 60 km away
- 2.8148 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2827 days ago · 35 km deep · 43 km away
- 2.077 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2826 days ago · 69 km deep · 95 km away
- 1.891 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2826 days ago · 27 km deep · 94 km away
- 2.197 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2826 days ago · 10 km deep · 42 km away
- 3.0170 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2824 days ago · 43 km deep · 32 km away
- 2.6140 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 2824 days ago · 26 km deep · 66 km away
- 2.7141 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 2824 days ago · 26 km deep · 63 km away
- 2.3110 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska · 2824 days ago · 45 km deep · 80 km away
- 2.5114 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska · 2824 days ago · 35 km deep · 78 km away
- 2.4107 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska · 2823 days ago · 46 km deep · 84 km away
- 2.5132 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2823 days ago · 26 km deep · 86 km away
- 2.7107 km ESE of Akutan, AK · 2822 days ago · 35 km deep · 85 km away
- 2.5147 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2822 days ago · 32 km deep · 40 km away
- 3.7112 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2822 days ago · 25 km deep · 64 km away
- 2.9209 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2821 days ago · 10 km deep · 87 km away
- 2.1112 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2821 days ago · 26 km deep · 62 km away
- 3.0177 km SE of Akutan, Alaska · 2820 days ago · 10 km deep · 81 km away
- 2.3121 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska · 2816 days ago · 31 km deep · 69 km away
Before
- 2.2107 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska · 2874 days ago · 10 km deep · 83 km away
- 2.3112 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2875 days ago · 26 km deep · 27 km away
- 2.4192 km SE of Akutan, Alaska · 2876 days ago · 32 km deep · 89 km away
- 2.396 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2876 days ago · 16 km deep · 48 km away
- 3.4114 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska · 2877 days ago · 35 km deep · 76 km away
- 2.2112 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska · 2877 days ago · 17 km deep · 78 km away
- 2.4115 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2877 days ago · 26 km deep · 64 km away
- 2.3114 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska · 2877 days ago · 11 km deep · 76 km away
- 3.2156 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 2877 days ago · 10 km deep · 61 km away
- 2.642 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2881 days ago · 16 km deep · 98 km away
- 2.194 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2882 days ago · 21 km deep · 92 km away
- 1.977 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 2886 days ago · 16 km deep · 95 km away
- 2.2103 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2887 days ago · 26 km deep · 64 km away
- 2.4114 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska · 2888 days ago · 26 km deep · 75 km away
- 2.1107 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2892 days ago · 38 km deep · 77 km away
- 1.9113 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2892 days ago · 17 km deep · 66 km away
- 1.8109 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2892 days ago · 26 km deep · 69 km away
- 4.5117 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2892 days ago · 10 km deep · 67 km away · felt by 1
- 1.887 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2892 days ago · 38 km deep · 61 km away
- 4.584 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2894 days ago · 39 km deep · 62 km away
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