M2.7 earthquake 179 km S of False Pass, Alaska
A magnitude 2.7 earthquake struck 179 km S of False Pass, Alaska on Wed, Oct 10, 2018, 1:36 AM AKDT (09:36 UTC), 10 km (6 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.5 84 km S of False Pass, Alaska. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 2.7 (ml), micro
- Local time
- UTC
- 2018-10-10 09:36:03 UTC
- Depth
- 10.0 km (6.2 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 53.252° N, 163.094° 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 4.0 km horizontally, 2.0 km in depth
- Depth from
- Operator assigned
- Station coverage gap
- 274°, poorly surrounded by stations
- Stations used
- 16
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 38 in the 60 days after this one and 27 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.9112 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska · 2905 days ago · 21 km deep · 92 km away
- 2.8221 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2905 days ago · 7 km deep · 74 km away
- 2.7166 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 2904 days ago · 10 km deep · 77 km away
- 3.0195 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 2904 days ago · 42 km deep · 81 km away
- 2.396 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2903 days ago · 24 km deep · 90 km away
- 2.2141 km SE of Akutan, Alaska · 2902 days ago · 17 km deep · 72 km away
- 3.099 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2899 days ago · 17 km deep · 80 km away
- 4.584 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2894 days ago · 39 km deep · 98 km away
- 1.887 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2892 days ago · 38 km deep · 96 km away
- 4.5117 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2892 days ago · 10 km deep · 89 km away · felt by 1
- 1.8109 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2892 days ago · 26 km deep · 94 km away
- 1.9113 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2892 days ago · 17 km deep · 90 km away
- 2.4114 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska · 2888 days ago · 26 km deep · 89 km away
- 2.2103 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2887 days ago · 26 km deep · 92 km away
- 3.2156 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 2877 days ago · 10 km deep · 79 km away
- 2.3114 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska · 2877 days ago · 11 km deep · 89 km away
- 2.4115 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2877 days ago · 26 km deep · 87 km away
- 2.2112 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska · 2877 days ago · 17 km deep · 92 km away
- 3.4114 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska · 2877 days ago · 35 km deep · 89 km away
- 2.396 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2876 days ago · 16 km deep · 88 km away
- 2.5238 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2876 days ago · 39 km deep · 87 km away
- 2.4192 km SE of Akutan, Alaska · 2875 days ago · 32 km deep · 55 km away
- 2.3112 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2875 days ago · 26 km deep · 67 km away
- 2.2134 km SE of Akutan, Alaska · 2874 days ago · 32 km deep · 96 km away
- 2.2107 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska · 2874 days ago · 10 km deep · 95 km away
- 2.3139 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2873 days ago · 36 km deep · 41 km away
- 2.5105 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2873 days ago · 10 km deep · 99 km away
- 3.9157 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska · 2872 days ago · 25 km deep · 45 km away
- 2.2108 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska · 2866 days ago · 26 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.497 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2866 days ago · 46 km deep · 93 km away
- 2.4106 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska · 2866 days ago · 42 km deep · 98 km away
- 2.9143 km SE of Akutan, Alaska · 2865 days ago · 10 km deep · 87 km away
- 2.6147 km SE of Akutan, Alaska · 2865 days ago · 28 km deep · 92 km away
- 3.4147 km SSE of Akutan, Alaska · 2864 days ago · 10 km deep · 99 km away
- 2.5155 km SE of Akutan, Alaska · 2864 days ago · 9 km deep · 95 km away
- 3.6133 km SE of Akutan, Alaska · 2863 days ago · 10 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.2104 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2859 days ago · 26 km deep · 83 km away
- 2.486 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2858 days ago · 14 km deep · 94 km away
Before
- 2.199 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2915 days ago · 26 km deep · 87 km away
- 3.2115 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2918 days ago · 41 km deep · 91 km away
- 2.9104 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2919 days ago · 35 km deep · 86 km away
- 2.185 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2920 days ago · 43 km deep · 100 km away
- 2.6156 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2923 days ago · 10 km deep · 35 km away
- 3.1111 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska · 2924 days ago · 32 km deep · 95 km away
- 3.0119 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2925 days ago · 10 km deep · 75 km away
- 2.3104 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2928 days ago · 12 km deep · 76 km away
- 2.5209 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2930 days ago · 20 km deep · 30 km away
- 2.2123 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2931 days ago · 26 km deep · 69 km away
- 2.182 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2932 days ago · 25 km deep · 99 km away
- 2.5166 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2933 days ago · 35 km deep · 27 km away
- 2.1121 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2934 days ago · 24 km deep · 64 km away
- 2.4108 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2934 days ago · 13 km deep · 72 km away
- 2.290 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2935 days ago · 17 km deep · 90 km away
- 2.484 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2935 days ago · 38 km deep · 95 km away
- 2.6104 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2935 days ago · 15 km deep · 77 km away
- 1.9Unimak Island region, Alaska · 2935 days ago · 12 km deep · 84 km away
- 2.292 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2935 days ago · 16 km deep · 89 km away
- 2.8107 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2935 days ago · 14 km deep · 73 km away
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From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us1000hd4a (also filed as ak20285104, aacse018d06nub6, ak018d06nub6). Read Wed, Sep 30, 2026, 9:39 AM UTC.