M2.3 earthquake 30 km W of False Pass, Alaska
A magnitude 2.3 earthquake struck 30 km W of False Pass, Alaska on Sun, Oct 11, 2020, 9:57 PM AKDT (05:57 UTC), 157 km (97 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M3.2 40 km SSE 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
- 2.3 (ML, local (Richter)), micro
- Magnitude from
- Alaska Earthquake Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2020-10-12 05:57:16 UTC
- Depth
- 156.7 km (97.4 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 54.825° N, 163.878° 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
- 34
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 41 in the 60 days after this one and 32 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 1.989 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2181 days ago · 37 km deep · 96 km away
- 1.718 km SW of Cold Bay, Alaska · 2181 days ago · 103 km deep · 66 km away
- 1.795 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2181 days ago · 19 km deep · 81 km away
- 1.624 km S of False Pass, AK · 2181 days ago · 26 km deep · 40 km away
- 1.914 km SSW of Cold Bay, Alaska · 2180 days ago · 108 km deep · 74 km away
- 1.794 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2180 days ago · 26 km deep · 82 km away
- 2.835 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2180 days ago · 19 km deep · 49 km away
- 2.058 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2179 days ago · 89 km deep · 59 km away
- 2.845 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2177 days ago · 9 km deep · 58 km away
- 1.529 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2177 days ago · 4 km deep · 29 km away
- 3.092 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2171 days ago · 35 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.6109 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2166 days ago · 23 km deep · 99 km away
- 2.927 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 2164 days ago · 77 km deep · 99 km away
- 2.178 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2161 days ago · 51 km deep · 85 km away
- 2.583 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2161 days ago · 35 km deep · 87 km away
- 2.7Unimak Island region, Alaska · 2160 days ago · 31 km deep · 46 km away
- 2.173 km SE of False Pass, Alaska · 2159 days ago · 18 km deep · 94 km away
- 2.0Unimak Island region, Alaska · 2159 days ago · 70 km deep · 79 km away
- 2.031 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2158 days ago · 11 km deep · 45 km away
- 2.9Unimak Island region, Alaska · 2157 days ago · 85 km deep · 43 km away
- 2.173 km SE of False Pass, Alaska · 2156 days ago · 11 km deep · 93 km away
- 2.541 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2155 days ago · 10 km deep · 54 km away
- 2.076 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2152 days ago · 11 km deep · 93 km away
- 2.999 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2151 days ago · 20 km deep · 96 km away
- 2.256 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 2149 days ago · 14 km deep · 98 km away
- 2.219 km NW of Cold Bay, Alaska · 2149 days ago · 174 km deep · 79 km away
- 1.723 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2148 days ago · 24 km deep · 40 km away
- 2.346 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2146 days ago · 21 km deep · 57 km away
- 2.036 km NW of False Pass, Alaska · 2146 days ago · 88 km deep · 24 km away
- 2.2100 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2144 days ago · 26 km deep · 99 km away
- 1.819 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2142 days ago · 18 km deep · 37 km away
- 2.266 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2141 days ago · 68 km deep · 64 km away
- 3.240 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2138 days ago · 10 km deep · 53 km away
- 1.924 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2137 days ago · 16 km deep · 41 km away
- 2.090 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2136 days ago · 26 km deep · 90 km away
- 3.264 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2135 days ago · 73 km deep · 57 km away
- 2.832 km NW of False Pass, Alaska · 2132 days ago · 173 km deep · 31 km away
- 3.240 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2132 days ago · 16 km deep · 53 km away
- 2.014 km WSW of Cold Bay, Alaska · 2130 days ago · 110 km deep · 70 km away
- 2.280 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2127 days ago · 43 km deep · 81 km away
- 1.9Unimak Island region, Alaska · 2124 days ago · 13 km deep · 39 km away
Before
- 1.722 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2182 days ago · 96 km deep · 28 km away
- 1.780 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2182 days ago · 25 km deep · 81 km away
- 2.191 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2182 days ago · 25 km deep · 89 km away
- 2.483 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2183 days ago · 48 km deep · 82 km away
- 1.743 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2183 days ago · 12 km deep · 63 km away
- 1.989 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2183 days ago · 52 km deep · 90 km away
- 1.811 km WNW of False Pass, Alaska · 2185 days ago · 29 km deep · 22 km away
- 2.998 km E of Akutan, Alaska · 2186 days ago · 63 km deep · 91 km away
- 2.029 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2188 days ago · 5 km deep · 44 km away
- 3.240 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2188 days ago · 10 km deep · 54 km away
- 1.585 km E of Akutan, Alaska · 2189 days ago · 20 km deep · 80 km away
- 1.822 km NNW of False Pass, Alaska · 2190 days ago · 36 km deep · 30 km away
- 1.833 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2190 days ago · 14 km deep · 49 km away
- 1.826 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2190 days ago · 9 km deep · 41 km away
- 1.724 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2190 days ago · 12 km deep · 39 km away
- 1.928 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2191 days ago · 13 km deep · 44 km away
- 3.235 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2191 days ago · 18 km deep · 49 km away
- 2.931 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2191 days ago · 24 km deep · 45 km away
- 2.326 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2191 days ago · 13 km deep · 42 km away
- 1.821 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2191 days ago · 26 km deep · 37 km away
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