M1.8 earthquake 48 km SSW of King Cove, Alaska
A magnitude 1.8 earthquake struck 48 km SSW of King Cove, Alaska on Mon, Jan 4, 2021, 7:32 PM AKST (04:32 UTC), 13 km (8 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.0 71 km S of King Cove, 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
- 1.8 (ML, local (Richter)), micro
- Magnitude from
- Alaska Earthquake Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2021-01-05 04:32:55 UTC
- Depth
- 13.2 km (8.2 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 54.640° N, 162.537° 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
- 18
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 151 in the 60 days after this one and 77 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.068 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2097 days ago · 14 km deep · 48 km away
- 2.655 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 2097 days ago · 22 km deep · 8 km away
- 2.080 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2097 days ago · 26 km deep · 58 km away
- 2.782 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 2095 days ago · 23 km deep · 87 km away
- 2.384 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2094 days ago · 13 km deep · 70 km away
- 1.9104 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2093 days ago · 13 km deep · 81 km away
- 1.661 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2093 days ago · 26 km deep · 56 km away
- 2.470 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2093 days ago · 74 km deep · 75 km away
- 3.090 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2092 days ago · 22 km deep · 75 km away
- 2.385 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2092 days ago · 13 km deep · 70 km away
- 2.480 km SE of False Pass, Alaska · 2092 days ago · 26 km deep · 41 km away
- 2.058 km WSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 2091 days ago · 75 km deep · 97 km away
- 3.190 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2090 days ago · 10 km deep · 86 km away
- 3.052 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2090 days ago · 56 km deep · 52 km away
- 1.889 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2089 days ago · 15 km deep · 72 km away
- 1.896 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2089 days ago · 12 km deep · 79 km away
- 2.8102 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2089 days ago · 35 km deep · 87 km away
- 1.680 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2089 days ago · 3 km deep · 79 km away
- 1.883 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2088 days ago · 20 km deep · 81 km away
- 3.774 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2088 days ago · 48 km deep · 78 km away · felt by 1
- 1.678 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2088 days ago · 13 km deep · 80 km away
- 2.078 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2088 days ago · 17 km deep · 82 km away
- 1.646 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 2088 days ago · 57 km deep · 7 km away
- 1.817 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2088 days ago · 13 km deep · 52 km away
- 1.874 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2088 days ago · 22 km deep · 76 km away
- 1.674 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2088 days ago · 7 km deep · 75 km away
- 1.875 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2088 days ago · 21 km deep · 73 km away
- 1.880 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2087 days ago · 26 km deep · 85 km away
- 2.088 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2086 days ago · 26 km deep · 87 km away
- 3.094 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2086 days ago · 21 km deep · 77 km away
- 3.394 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2085 days ago · 13 km deep · 76 km away
- 2.280 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2085 days ago · 29 km deep · 77 km away
- 2.9Alaska Peninsula · 2085 days ago · 26 km deep · 85 km away
- 2.6103 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2084 days ago · 13 km deep · 84 km away
- 3.090 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2083 days ago · 27 km deep · 89 km away
- 2.291 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2081 days ago · 7 km deep · 72 km away
- 2.824 km N of False Pass, Alaska · 2081 days ago · 104 km deep · 74 km away
- 2.970 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2081 days ago · 27 km deep · 61 km away
- 1.945 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2080 days ago · 63 km deep · 62 km away
- 3.490 km SE of False Pass, Alaska · 2079 days ago · 15 km deep · 49 km away
- 2.1103 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2079 days ago · 2 km deep · 86 km away
- 2.8119 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2079 days ago · 10 km deep · 95 km away
- 3.0113 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2079 days ago · 3 km deep · 94 km away
- 5.071 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 2078 days ago · 39 km deep · 34 km away · felt by 6
- 2.196 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2077 days ago · 26 km deep · 75 km away
- 3.084 km S of False Pass, Alaska · 2077 days ago · 27 km deep · 84 km away
- 3.093 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 2076 days ago · 15 km deep · 47 km away
- 1.661 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2076 days ago · 21 km deep · 48 km away
- 1.968 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2076 days ago · 21 km deep · 53 km away
- 2.797 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2076 days ago · 35 km deep · 74 km away
- 1.750 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2076 days ago · 47 km deep · 32 km away
- 2.043 km SSW of King Cove, Alaska · 2076 days ago · 81 km deep · 12 km away
- 1.965 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 2075 days ago · 26 km deep · 26 km away
- 2.180 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2075 days ago · 26 km deep · 80 km away
- 1.764 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2075 days ago · 19 km deep · 45 km away
- 2.595 km S of False Pass, AK · 2075 days ago · 35 km deep · 85 km away
- 2.179 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 2074 days ago · 7 km deep · 33 km away
- 2.093 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2074 days ago · 3 km deep · 74 km away
- 2.090 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 2074 days ago · 13 km deep · 93 km away
- 2.685 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2073 days ago · 29 km deep · 81 km away
The first 60 of 151.
Before
- 4.030 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 2098 days ago · 87 km deep · 63 km away
- 2.780 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2098 days ago · 26 km deep · 85 km away
- 1.678 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2098 days ago · 16 km deep · 82 km away
- 1.819 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2098 days ago · 94 km deep · 53 km away
- 1.87 km NNE of King Cove, Alaska · 2099 days ago · 104 km deep · 56 km away
- 1.938 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2099 days ago · 78 km deep · 35 km away
- 2.091 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2099 days ago · 26 km deep · 73 km away
- 2.333 km NNW of False Pass, Alaska · 2100 days ago · 131 km deep · 90 km away
- 1.721 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2100 days ago · 11 km deep · 51 km away
- 2.681 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2100 days ago · 10 km deep · 73 km away
- 1.984 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2100 days ago · 26 km deep · 66 km away
- 1.886 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2100 days ago · 5 km deep · 75 km away
- 1.875 km SW of Sand Point, Alaska · 2100 days ago · 70 km deep · 88 km away
- 2.289 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2100 days ago · 13 km deep · 78 km away
- 2.987 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2101 days ago · 22 km deep · 77 km away
- 3.086 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2101 days ago · 24 km deep · 64 km away
- 2.284 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska · 2101 days ago · 26 km deep · 52 km away
- 2.067 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2101 days ago · 26 km deep · 69 km away
- 2.076 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2101 days ago · 16 km deep · 80 km away
- 1.563 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2102 days ago · 24 km deep · 63 km away
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