M2.0 earthquake 79 km SE of King Cove, Alaska
A magnitude 2.0 earthquake struck 79 km SE of King Cove, Alaska on Sun, Mar 7, 2021, 5:11 AM AKST (14:11 UTC), 17 km (10 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.6 32 km S of Sand Point, Alaska. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 2.0 (ml), micro
- Local time
- UTC
- 2021-03-07 14:11:31 UTC
- Depth
- 16.5 km (10.3 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 54.474° N, 161.616° 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
- 16
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 126 in the 60 days after this one and 76 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 1.978 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2027 days ago · 26 km deep · 30 km away
- 2.066 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 2026 days ago · 21 km deep · 68 km away
- 1.879 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2025 days ago · 19 km deep · 25 km away
- 1.755 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2025 days ago · 21 km deep · 24 km away
- 1.891 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2025 days ago · 12 km deep · 12 km away
- 2.259 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 2025 days ago · 72 km deep · 43 km away
- 2.075 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 2024 days ago · 26 km deep · 76 km away
- 3.0107 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2023 days ago · 8 km deep · 28 km away
- 2.1100 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2023 days ago · 26 km deep · 21 km away
- 1.969 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2023 days ago · 17 km deep · 30 km away
- 2.7102 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2023 days ago · 10 km deep · 23 km away
- 2.6104 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2023 days ago · 10 km deep · 25 km away
- 2.872 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2023 days ago · 35 km deep · 16 km away
- 2.290 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2023 days ago · 7 km deep · 21 km away
- 2.2132 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2022 days ago · 26 km deep · 55 km away
- 3.562 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2022 days ago · 29 km deep · 17 km away
- 3.0104 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 2022 days ago · 14 km deep · 54 km away
- 1.648 km SSW of King Cove, Alaska · 2021 days ago · 8 km deep · 72 km away
- 2.690 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2021 days ago · 17 km deep · 11 km away
- 1.981 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2021 days ago · 15 km deep · 2 km away
- 3.165 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2020 days ago · 49 km deep · 34 km away
- 2.191 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2020 days ago · 4 km deep · 12 km away
- 1.989 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2020 days ago · 26 km deep · 20 km away
- 1.967 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2020 days ago · 13 km deep · 18 km away
- 2.092 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2019 days ago · 13 km deep · 14 km away
- 1.9101 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2019 days ago · 0 km deep · 33 km away
- 2.244 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2019 days ago · 66 km deep · 98 km away
- 2.1115 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 2019 days ago · 26 km deep · 58 km away
- 1.883 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2019 days ago · 8 km deep · 5 km away
- 1.792 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2019 days ago · 11 km deep · 23 km away
- 2.695 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2019 days ago · 35 km deep · 17 km away
- 2.043 km SE of False Pass, Alaska · 2019 days ago · 13 km deep · 89 km away
- 1.589 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2019 days ago · 16 km deep · 11 km away
- 2.765 km SE of False Pass, Alaska · 2018 days ago · 27 km deep · 68 km away
- 4.632 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 2018 days ago · 50 km deep · 97 km away
- 1.946 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 2018 days ago · 75 km deep · 75 km away
- 1.839 km SE of False Pass, Alaska · 2017 days ago · 18 km deep · 90 km away
- 2.179 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2017 days ago · 17 km deep · 1 km away
- 1.830 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2016 days ago · 88 km deep · 49 km away
- 1.655 km SSW of King Cove, Alaska · 2015 days ago · 51 km deep · 66 km away
- 2.248 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 2015 days ago · 50 km deep · 45 km away
- 1.839 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 2014 days ago · 4 km deep · 93 km away
- 3.994 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2014 days ago · 27 km deep · 99 km away
- 2.731 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2013 days ago · 89 km deep · 49 km away
- 2.098 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2013 days ago · 19 km deep · 19 km away
- 1.980 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2011 days ago · 6 km deep · 3 km away
- 1.653 km SSW of King Cove, Alaska · 2011 days ago · 13 km deep · 59 km away
- 2.694 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2010 days ago · 27 km deep · 95 km away
- 1.893 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2010 days ago · 3 km deep · 14 km away
- 2.235 km ENE of King Cove, Alaska · 2010 days ago · 116 km deep · 86 km away
- 1.942 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2010 days ago · 58 km deep · 38 km away
- 1.972 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2010 days ago · 10 km deep · 95 km away
- 1.779 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2009 days ago · 26 km deep · 28 km away
- 1.781 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2008 days ago · 26 km deep · 33 km away
- 3.295 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2008 days ago · 6 km deep · 17 km away
- 1.866 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 2008 days ago · 59 km deep · 57 km away
- 1.885 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 2007 days ago · 26 km deep · 37 km away
- 1.854 km SSW of King Cove, Alaska · 2006 days ago · 15 km deep · 69 km away
- 2.974 km SW of Sand Point, Alaska · 2005 days ago · 68 km deep · 46 km away
- 2.042 km SE of False Pass, Alaska · 2005 days ago · 13 km deep · 89 km away
The first 60 of 126.
Before
- 1.993 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2029 days ago · 5 km deep · 14 km away
- 1.672 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2029 days ago · 26 km deep · 34 km away
- 2.5106 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 2031 days ago · 20 km deep · 54 km away
- 2.9101 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2032 days ago · 9 km deep · 24 km away
- 2.386 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2032 days ago · 9 km deep · 13 km away
- 1.879 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2032 days ago · 16 km deep · 1 km away
- 2.3141 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2032 days ago · 26 km deep · 63 km away
- 1.955 km WSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 2032 days ago · 92 km deep · 78 km away
- 2.196 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2032 days ago · 12 km deep · 92 km away
- 1.961 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2032 days ago · 26 km deep · 19 km away
- 2.065 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2032 days ago · 19 km deep · 15 km away
- 3.071 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2033 days ago · 27 km deep · 10 km away
- 2.481 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2033 days ago · 16 km deep · 2 km away
- 2.894 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2033 days ago · 20 km deep · 15 km away
- 3.196 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2033 days ago · 8 km deep · 17 km away
- 4.385 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2033 days ago · 40 km deep · 7 km away
- 3.988 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2033 days ago · 42 km deep · 11 km away
- 1.955 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2034 days ago · 38 km deep · 25 km away
- 2.055 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 2034 days ago · 20 km deep · 91 km away
- 2.258 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 2035 days ago · 19 km deep · 89 km away
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