M2.2 earthquake 37 km ESE of Atka, Alaska
A magnitude 2.2 earthquake struck 37 km ESE of Atka, Alaska on Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 9:25 PM HADT (06:25 UTC), 153 km (95 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.1 75 km SE of Atka, 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
- 2.2 (ML, local (Richter)), micro
- Magnitude from
- Alaska Earthquake Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2021-04-23 06:25:25 UTC
- Depth
- 153.1 km (95.1 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 52.104° N, 173.672° 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
- 20
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 31 in the 60 days after this one and 40 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.154 km E of Atka, Alaska · 1987 days ago · 88 km deep · 19 km away
- 2.120 km ESE of Atka, Alaska · 1987 days ago · 146 km deep · 17 km away
- 3.168 km SE of Atka, Alaska · 1987 days ago · 35 km deep · 35 km away
- 1.766 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 1986 days ago · 63 km deep · 93 km away
- 1.771 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 1986 days ago · 38 km deep · 99 km away
- 1.978 km SE of Atka, Alaska · 1985 days ago · 12 km deep · 49 km away
- 2.968 km E of Atka, Alaska · 1985 days ago · 223 km deep · 39 km away
- 2.256 km WNW of Atka, Alaska · 1984 days ago · 78 km deep · 93 km away
- 1.5Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 1983 days ago · 6 km deep · 51 km away
- 1.943 km SSW of Atka, Alaska · 1983 days ago · 44 km deep · 57 km away
- 2.194 km SE of Atka, Alaska · 1981 days ago · 18 km deep · 66 km away
- 2.363 km S of Atka, Alaska · 1981 days ago · 21 km deep · 64 km away
- 3.345 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1978 days ago · 56 km deep · 32 km away
- 2.684 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1967 days ago · 35 km deep · 63 km away
- 2.955 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 1966 days ago · 51 km deep · 80 km away
- 3.955 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1958 days ago · 35 km deep · 44 km away
- 4.295 km SE of Atka, Alaska · 1958 days ago · 16 km deep · 67 km away
- 4.281 km SE of Atka, Alaska · 1958 days ago · 41 km deep · 51 km away
- 5.175 km SE of Atka, Alaska · 1958 days ago · 21 km deep · 45 km away
- 3.879 km SE of Atka, Alaska · 1958 days ago · 45 km deep · 50 km away
- 3.6123 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1958 days ago · 39 km deep · 98 km away
- 4.198 km SE of Atka, Alaska · 1958 days ago · 45 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.099 km SE of Atka, Alaska · 1958 days ago · 35 km deep · 71 km away
- 4.245 km E of Atka, Alaska · 1950 days ago · 148 km deep · 15 km away
- 2.042 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 1949 days ago · 55 km deep · 69 km away
- 3.3107 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1946 days ago · 33 km deep · 83 km away
- 3.2Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 1939 days ago · 35 km deep · 98 km away
- 2.9Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 1938 days ago · 35 km deep · 74 km away
- 2.7Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 1937 days ago · 35 km deep · 45 km away
- 4.189 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1937 days ago · 30 km deep · 67 km away
- 2.915 km NNE of Atka, Alaska · 1937 days ago · 178 km deep · 40 km away
Before
- 3.0Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 1988 days ago · 192 km deep · 61 km away
- 2.220 km E of Atka, Alaska · 1988 days ago · 115 km deep · 21 km away
- 2.228 km SE of Atka, Alaska · 1991 days ago · 70 km deep · 23 km away
- 3.9Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 1991 days ago · 221 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.933 km S of Atka, Alaska · 1991 days ago · 3 km deep · 44 km away
- 1.861 km E of Atka, Alaska · 1992 days ago · 13 km deep · 26 km away
- 1.943 km SE of Atka, Alaska · 1992 days ago · 17 km deep · 21 km away
- 1.815 km SSW of Atka, Alaska · 1992 days ago · 74 km deep · 42 km away
- 2.5120 km E of Atka, Alaska · 1993 days ago · 102 km deep · 85 km away
- 1.863 km E of Atka, Alaska · 1993 days ago · 4 km deep · 34 km away
- 3.646 km N of Atka, Alaska · 1993 days ago · 192 km deep · 68 km away
- 1.628 km SE of Atka, Alaska · 1993 days ago · 11 km deep · 24 km away
- 1.978 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1993 days ago · 17 km deep · 60 km away
- 1.654 km E of Atka, Alaska · 1994 days ago · 13 km deep · 20 km away
- 3.149 km SW of Atka, Alaska · 1994 days ago · 10 km deep · 78 km away
- 2.047 km ESE of Atka, Alaska · 1994 days ago · 65 km deep · 10 km away
- 2.086 km S of Atka, Alaska · 1995 days ago · 26 km deep · 88 km away
- 3.629 km NE of Atka, AK · 1997 days ago · 174 km deep · 30 km away
- 3.467 km ENE of Atka, Alaska · 1999 days ago · 10 km deep · 40 km away
- 4.294 km NE of Atka, Alaska · 2002 days ago · 221 km deep · 89 km away
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