M1.5 earthquake 189 km SSE of Atka, Alaska
A magnitude 1.5 earthquake struck 189 km SSE of Atka, Alaska on Wed, Aug 4, 2021, 10:27 AM HADT (19:27 UTC), 8 km (5 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M3.3 Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, 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
- 1.5 (ML, local (Richter)), micro
- Magnitude from
- Alaska Earthquake Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2021-08-04 19:27:40 UTC
- Depth
- 8.0 km (5.0 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 50.698° N, 172.906° 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
- 30
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 37 in the 60 days after this one and 18 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.7187 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1884 days ago · 10 km deep · 3 km away
- 2.7Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 1883 days ago · 10 km deep · 8 km away
- 1.7160 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1883 days ago · 3 km deep · 36 km away
- 2.3165 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1883 days ago · 9 km deep · 31 km away
- 2.2150 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1883 days ago · 15 km deep · 40 km away
- 2.2155 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1883 days ago · 1 km deep · 41 km away
- 3.1200 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1883 days ago · 30 km deep · 14 km away
- 3.0186 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1883 days ago · 10 km deep · 15 km away
- 2.3161 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1883 days ago · 7 km deep · 34 km away
- 3.0171 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1883 days ago · 17 km deep · 21 km away
- 2.9152 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1880 days ago · 10 km deep · 44 km away
- 2.7173 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1880 days ago · 22 km deep · 16 km away
- 3.0205 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1878 days ago · 10 km deep · 43 km away
- 3.3Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 1878 days ago · 35 km deep · 98 km away
- 2.0199 km S of Atka, Alaska · 1877 days ago · 9 km deep · 88 km away
- 2.2187 km SE of Atka, Alaska · 1877 days ago · 3 km deep · 31 km away
- 2.6211 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1874 days ago · 10 km deep · 22 km away
- 3.3200 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1873 days ago · 10 km deep · 42 km away
- 2.0193 km S of Atka, Alaska · 1870 days ago · 10 km deep · 62 km away
- 2.8197 km SE of Atka, Alaska · 1868 days ago · 10 km deep · 27 km away
- 2.5102 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1867 days ago · 10 km deep · 89 km away
- 2.9178 km SE of Atka, Alaska · 1867 days ago · 10 km deep · 50 km away
- 3.0167 km SE of Atka, Alaska · 1867 days ago · 10 km deep · 58 km away
- 2.0163 km SE of Atka, Alaska · 1865 days ago · 20 km deep · 46 km away
- 2.1165 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1863 days ago · 11 km deep · 51 km away
- 2.1178 km S of Atka, Alaska · 1858 days ago · 7 km deep · 68 km away
- 2.7188 km S of Atka, Alaska · 1857 days ago · 10 km deep · 79 km away
- 2.2140 km SE of Atka, Alaska · 1855 days ago · 14 km deep · 68 km away
- 2.2180 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1855 days ago · 22 km deep · 14 km away
- 3.1113 km SE of Atka, Alaska · 1854 days ago · 35 km deep · 94 km away
- 2.8217 km SE of Atka, Alaska · 1853 days ago · 10 km deep · 81 km away
- 2.893 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1849 days ago · 35 km deep · 100 km away
- 2.9122 km SE of Atka, Alaska · 1844 days ago · 30 km deep · 95 km away
- 3.1110 km SE of Atka, Alaska · 1844 days ago · 35 km deep · 87 km away
- 2.9183 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1842 days ago · 21 km deep · 38 km away
- 2.7105 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1837 days ago · 35 km deep · 85 km away
- 2.796 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1837 days ago · 35 km deep · 99 km away
Before
- 2.1165 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1884 days ago · 10 km deep · 29 km away
- 3.2132 km SE of Atka, Alaska · 1885 days ago · 10 km deep · 62 km away
- 2.2173 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1885 days ago · 11 km deep · 53 km away
- 2.7173 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1885 days ago · 10 km deep · 24 km away
- 3.8181 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1885 days ago · 10 km deep · 10 km away
- 3.0162 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1886 days ago · 6 km deep · 36 km away
- 3.1186 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1887 days ago · 30 km deep · 5 km away
- 3.1169 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1887 days ago · 10 km deep · 22 km away
- 3.1174 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1889 days ago · 26 km deep · 15 km away
- 2.2187 km SE of Atka, Alaska · 1892 days ago · 11 km deep · 52 km away
- 2.8109 km SE of Atka, Alaska · 1892 days ago · 10 km deep · 87 km away
- 2.8Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 1893 days ago · 26 km deep · 28 km away
- 3.2163 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1893 days ago · 10 km deep · 31 km away
- 2.4144 km S of Atka, Alaska · 1894 days ago · 21 km deep · 72 km away
- 3.899 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1895 days ago · 61 km deep · 90 km away
- 2.397 km SE of Atka, Alaska · 1897 days ago · 24 km deep · 95 km away
- 2.6109 km SE of Atka, Alaska · 1897 days ago · 25 km deep · 83 km away
- 1.590 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 1904 days ago · 19 km deep · 98 km away
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