M2.8 earthquake 227 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska
A magnitude 2.8 earthquake struck 227 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska on Mon, Dec 14, 2020, 9:36 AM AKST (18:36 UTC), 10 km (6 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M3.6 241 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
- 2.8 (ml), micro
- Local time
- UTC
- 2020-12-14 18:36:55 UTC
- Depth
- 10.0 km (6.2 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 52.999° N, 161.970° 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 2.8 km horizontally, 2.0 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.09
- Depth from
- Operator assigned
- Station coverage gap
- 223°, poorly surrounded by stations
- 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: 5 in the 60 days after this one and 8 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.6248 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2100 days ago · 29 km deep · 81 km away
- 3.6241 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2097 days ago · 24 km deep · 24 km away
- 2.8238 km SE of Akutan, Alaska · 2093 days ago · 10 km deep · 93 km away
- 2.7140 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2093 days ago · 27 km deep · 96 km away
- 2.6246 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2056 days ago · 10 km deep · 66 km away
Before
- 2.2201 km SE of Akutan, Alaska · 2110 days ago · 26 km deep · 93 km away
- 2.6226 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2114 days ago · 24 km deep · 9 km away
- 2.6173 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2126 days ago · 27 km deep · 91 km away
- 3.0233 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2128 days ago · 10 km deep · 65 km away
- 2.6186 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2130 days ago · 22 km deep · 41 km away
- 2.9251 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2135 days ago · 26 km deep · 84 km away
- 3.5203 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2136 days ago · 20 km deep · 49 km away
- 2.5254 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2137 days ago · 10 km deep · 93 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us6000d218 (also filed as ak020g1hhutm). Read Thu, Sep 24, 2026, 8:27 AM UTC.