M2.3 earthquake 37 km NE of Sand Point, Alaska
A magnitude 2.3 earthquake struck 37 km NE of Sand Point, Alaska on Sun, Jan 27, 2019, 3:26 PM AKST (00:26 UTC), 90 km (56 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M3.6 40 km E of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 2.3 (ml), micro
- Local time
- UTC
- 2019-01-28 00:26:20 UTC
- Depth
- 90.2 km (56.0 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 55.609° N, 160.159° 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
- 32
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 47 in the 60 days after this one and 23 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 1.831 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 2801 days ago · 60 km deep · 67 km away
- 1.638 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 2800 days ago · 13 km deep · 75 km away
- 2.585 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2799 days ago · 35 km deep · 89 km away
- 3.239 km NE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2797 days ago · 10 km deep · 11 km away
- 2.043 km ENE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2797 days ago · 21 km deep · 20 km away
- 2.157 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 2796 days ago · 26 km deep · 90 km away
- 2.043 km S of Ivanof Bay, Alaska · 2795 days ago · 56 km deep · 51 km away
- 2.755 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 2794 days ago · 10 km deep · 86 km away
- 2.042 km ENE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2793 days ago · 23 km deep · 21 km away
- 3.268 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 2792 days ago · 16 km deep · 100 km away
- 2.756 km SSW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska · 2791 days ago · 134 km deep · 97 km away
- 1.9Alaska Peninsula · 2788 days ago · 53 km deep · 33 km away
- 3.520 km S of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska · 2787 days ago · 168 km deep · 66 km away
- 2.239 km WNW of Sand Point, Alaska · 2787 days ago · 102 km deep · 60 km away
- 2.650 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska · 2783 days ago · 31 km deep · 88 km away
- 1.624 km NW of Ivanof Bay, Alaska · 2783 days ago · 14 km deep · 57 km away
- 3.640 km E of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska · 2778 days ago · 165 km deep · 50 km away
- 2.715 km S of Ivanof Bay, Alaska · 2778 days ago · 75 km deep · 48 km away
- 3.533 km ESE of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska · 2776 days ago · 157 km deep · 46 km away
- 3.331 km WNW of Ivanof Bay, Alaska · 2776 days ago · 144 km deep · 51 km away
- 3.126 km SE of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska · 2775 days ago · 151 km deep · 53 km away
- 2.426 km WSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 2775 days ago · 13 km deep · 59 km away
- 2.263 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 2773 days ago · 10 km deep · 98 km away
- 2.053 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2769 days ago · 24 km deep · 82 km away
- 2.371 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska · 2769 days ago · 25 km deep · 96 km away
- 1.950 km SSW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska · 2768 days ago · 102 km deep · 82 km away
- 2.263 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2768 days ago · 22 km deep · 87 km away
- 2.933 km NE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2767 days ago · 75 km deep · 12 km away
- 2.355 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2765 days ago · 20 km deep · 77 km away
- 2.163 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 2765 days ago · 22 km deep · 96 km away
- 3.162 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska · 2762 days ago · 41 km deep · 97 km away
- 3.264 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2762 days ago · 35 km deep · 84 km away
- 2.227 km E of Sand Point, Alaska · 2761 days ago · 9 km deep · 29 km away
- 2.260 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 2760 days ago · 34 km deep · 93 km away
- 3.334 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2758 days ago · 14 km deep · 61 km away
- 2.058 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 2758 days ago · 28 km deep · 91 km away
- 1.924 km E of Sand Point, Alaska · 2758 days ago · 16 km deep · 34 km away
- 2.036 km NE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2757 days ago · 12 km deep · 9 km away
- 3.021 km E of Sand Point, Alaska · 2757 days ago · 72 km deep · 26 km away
- 1.842 km SW of Ivanof Bay, Alaska · 2756 days ago · 17 km deep · 11 km away
- 2.912 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2755 days ago · 22 km deep · 37 km away
- 2.569 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2753 days ago · 49 km deep · 66 km away
- 2.073 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2752 days ago · 21 km deep · 74 km away
- 2.157 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2749 days ago · 23 km deep · 76 km away
- 3.656 km NE of King Cove, Alaska · 2748 days ago · 124 km deep · 100 km away
- 2.173 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2745 days ago · 13 km deep · 71 km away
- 2.650 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 2745 days ago · 35 km deep · 86 km away
Before
- 2.633 km S of Perryville, Alaska · 2804 days ago · 49 km deep · 68 km away
- 2.287 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2807 days ago · 25 km deep · 86 km away
- 2.350 km W of Ivanof Bay, Alaska · 2809 days ago · 103 km deep · 29 km away
- 3.59 km SSW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska · 2809 days ago · 175 km deep · 76 km away
- 2.3Alaska Peninsula · 2809 days ago · 95 km deep · 20 km away
- 2.452 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2812 days ago · 21 km deep · 81 km away
- 2.98 km NNW of Perryville, Alaska · 2814 days ago · 77 km deep · 73 km away
- 2.27 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 2814 days ago · 56 km deep · 43 km away
- 2.360 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2814 days ago · 18 km deep · 80 km away
- 2.440 km N of Ivanof Bay, Alaska · 2815 days ago · 115 km deep · 83 km away
- 2.638 km ENE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2815 days ago · 10 km deep · 19 km away
- 2.643 km ENE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2815 days ago · 23 km deep · 21 km away
- 3.341 km ENE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2815 days ago · 16 km deep · 16 km away
- 3.032 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 2815 days ago · 58 km deep · 70 km away
- 2.457 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2816 days ago · 23 km deep · 75 km away
- 3.247 km SW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska · 2819 days ago · 178 km deep · 100 km away
- 2.655 km SW of Sand Point, Alaska · 2820 days ago · 53 km deep · 92 km away
- 2.265 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2824 days ago · 33 km deep · 74 km away
- 3.154 km SW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska · 2824 days ago · 118 km deep · 96 km away
- 1.854 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 2826 days ago · 26 km deep · 86 km away
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