M1.8 earthquake 7 km NNE of King Cove, Alaska
A magnitude 1.8 earthquake struck 7 km NNE of King Cove, Alaska on Sun, Jan 3, 2021, 6:22 PM AKST (03:22 UTC), 104 km (65 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.0 71 km S of King Cove, Alaska. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 1.8 (ml), micro
- Local time
- UTC
- 2021-01-04 03:22:07 UTC
- Depth
- 104.3 km (64.8 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 55.122° N, 162.268° 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
- 22
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 129 in the 60 days after this one and 65 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 1.819 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2095 days ago · 94 km deep · 20 km away
- 1.678 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2095 days ago · 16 km deep · 80 km away
- 2.780 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2095 days ago · 26 km deep · 81 km away
- 4.030 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2095 days ago · 87 km deep · 100 km away
- 1.848 km SSW of King Cove, Alaska · 2094 days ago · 13 km deep · 56 km away
- 2.068 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2094 days ago · 14 km deep · 74 km away
- 2.655 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 2094 days ago · 22 km deep · 63 km away
- 2.080 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2094 days ago · 26 km deep · 85 km away
- 2.782 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 2091 days ago · 23 km deep · 83 km away
- 2.384 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2090 days ago · 13 km deep · 87 km away
- 1.661 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2090 days ago · 26 km deep · 65 km away
- 3.090 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2089 days ago · 22 km deep · 94 km away
- 2.385 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2089 days ago · 13 km deep · 89 km away
- 2.480 km SE of False Pass, Alaska · 2088 days ago · 26 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.058 km WSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 2088 days ago · 75 km deep · 56 km away
- 3.190 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2087 days ago · 10 km deep · 92 km away
- 3.052 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2086 days ago · 56 km deep · 55 km away
- 1.889 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2085 days ago · 15 km deep · 93 km away
- 1.896 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2085 days ago · 12 km deep · 100 km away
- 1.680 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2085 days ago · 3 km deep · 82 km away
- 1.883 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2085 days ago · 20 km deep · 85 km away
- 3.774 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2085 days ago · 48 km deep · 75 km away · felt by 1
- 1.678 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2085 days ago · 13 km deep · 80 km away
- 2.078 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2085 days ago · 17 km deep · 79 km away
- 1.646 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 2085 days ago · 57 km deep · 53 km away
- 1.817 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2085 days ago · 13 km deep · 83 km away
- 1.874 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2084 days ago · 22 km deep · 75 km away
- 1.674 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2084 days ago · 7 km deep · 76 km away
- 1.875 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2084 days ago · 21 km deep · 77 km away
- 1.880 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2084 days ago · 26 km deep · 81 km away
- 3.094 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2083 days ago · 21 km deep · 98 km away
- 3.394 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2082 days ago · 13 km deep · 98 km away
- 2.280 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2082 days ago · 29 km deep · 82 km away
- 2.9Alaska Peninsula · 2081 days ago · 26 km deep · 91 km away
- 3.090 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2080 days ago · 27 km deep · 91 km away
- 2.291 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2078 days ago · 7 km deep · 95 km away
- 2.824 km N of False Pass, Alaska · 2078 days ago · 104 km deep · 73 km away
- 2.970 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2078 days ago · 27 km deep · 74 km away
- 1.945 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2077 days ago · 63 km deep · 45 km away
- 5.071 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 2075 days ago · 39 km deep · 78 km away · felt by 6
- 1.661 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2073 days ago · 21 km deep · 66 km away
- 1.968 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2072 days ago · 21 km deep · 73 km away
- 1.750 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2072 days ago · 47 km deep · 55 km away
- 2.043 km SSW of King Cove, Alaska · 2072 days ago · 81 km deep · 51 km away
- 1.843 km SW of Sand Point, Alaska · 2072 days ago · 59 km deep · 79 km away
- 1.965 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 2072 days ago · 26 km deep · 73 km away
- 2.180 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2072 days ago · 26 km deep · 83 km away
- 1.764 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2072 days ago · 19 km deep · 69 km away
- 2.179 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 2071 days ago · 7 km deep · 86 km away
- 2.093 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2071 days ago · 3 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.090 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 2071 days ago · 13 km deep · 94 km away
- 2.685 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2070 days ago · 29 km deep · 87 km away
- 2.262 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 2069 days ago · 13 km deep · 98 km away
- 2.082 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2069 days ago · 18 km deep · 84 km away
- 2.965 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2069 days ago · 65 km deep · 64 km away
- 1.966 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2069 days ago · 18 km deep · 70 km away
- 1.842 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2069 days ago · 50 km deep · 47 km away
- 1.680 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2068 days ago · 18 km deep · 84 km away
- 1.680 km SE of False Pass, Alaska · 2068 days ago · 17 km deep · 93 km away
- 1.818 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2068 days ago · 12 km deep · 83 km away
The first 60 of 129.
Before
- 1.938 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2096 days ago · 78 km deep · 44 km away
- 2.091 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2096 days ago · 26 km deep · 95 km away
- 2.333 km NNW of False Pass, Alaska · 2096 days ago · 131 km deep · 90 km away
- 1.721 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2097 days ago · 11 km deep · 84 km away
- 2.681 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2097 days ago · 10 km deep · 84 km away
- 1.984 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2097 days ago · 26 km deep · 89 km away
- 1.886 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2097 days ago · 5 km deep · 89 km away
- 1.875 km SW of Sand Point, Alaska · 2097 days ago · 70 km deep · 78 km away
- 2.289 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2097 days ago · 13 km deep · 92 km away
- 2.036 km W of Sand Point, Alaska · 2097 days ago · 78 km deep · 78 km away
- 2.987 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2097 days ago · 22 km deep · 90 km away
- 3.086 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2098 days ago · 24 km deep · 91 km away
- 2.067 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2098 days ago · 26 km deep · 69 km away
- 2.076 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2098 days ago · 16 km deep · 77 km away
- 1.563 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2099 days ago · 24 km deep · 66 km away
- 2.740 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2100 days ago · 12 km deep · 94 km away
- 1.985 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2100 days ago · 25 km deep · 90 km away
- 2.783 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2100 days ago · 31 km deep · 85 km away
- 2.176 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2101 days ago · 16 km deep · 77 km away
- 1.74 km NE of King Cove, Alaska · 2101 days ago · 85 km deep · 3 km away
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