M2.6 earthquake 81 km SE of King Cove, Alaska
A magnitude 2.6 earthquake struck 81 km SE of King Cove, Alaska on Sat, Jan 2, 2021, 10:13 AM AKST (19:13 UTC), 10 km (6 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M2.8 138 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
- 2.6 (ml), micro
- Local time
- UTC
- 2021-01-02 19:13:25 UTC
- Depth
- 9.8 km (6.1 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 54.542° N, 161.424° 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.
- Location uncertainty
- About 2.8 km horizontally, 9.5 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.11
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 228°, poorly surrounded by stations
- 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: 200 in the 60 days after this one and 0 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.480 km SE of False Pass, Alaska · 2082 days ago · 26 km deep · 85 km away
- 2.4100 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2082 days ago · 5 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.058 km WSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 2082 days ago · 75 km deep · 74 km away
- 2.4103 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2081 days ago · 16 km deep · 100 km away
- 2.8138 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 2081 days ago · 23 km deep · 71 km away
- 3.190 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2081 days ago · 10 km deep · 15 km away
- 2.8145 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 2081 days ago · 10 km deep · 79 km away
- 3.052 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2080 days ago · 56 km deep · 29 km away
- 2.5103 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2080 days ago · 10 km deep · 93 km away
- 2.8106 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2080 days ago · 9 km deep · 95 km away
- 2.0108 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2079 days ago · 9 km deep · 100 km away
- 2.5113 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2079 days ago · 10 km deep · 95 km away
- 1.889 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2079 days ago · 15 km deep · 15 km away
- 1.896 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2079 days ago · 12 km deep · 18 km away
- 2.8102 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2079 days ago · 35 km deep · 22 km away
- 1.680 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2079 days ago · 3 km deep · 13 km away
- 1.883 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2079 days ago · 20 km deep · 12 km away
- 3.774 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2079 days ago · 48 km deep · 21 km away · felt by 1
- 1.678 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2079 days ago · 13 km deep · 16 km away
- 2.078 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2079 days ago · 17 km deep · 21 km away
- 1.646 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 2079 days ago · 57 km deep · 66 km away
- 1.874 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2078 days ago · 22 km deep · 18 km away
- 1.674 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2078 days ago · 7 km deep · 14 km away
- 1.875 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2078 days ago · 21 km deep · 12 km away
- 2.7Alaska Peninsula · 2078 days ago · 74 km deep · 63 km away
- 2.298 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2078 days ago · 15 km deep · 99 km away
- 1.880 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2078 days ago · 26 km deep · 23 km away
- 2.288 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2077 days ago · 14 km deep · 96 km away
- 3.094 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2077 days ago · 21 km deep · 17 km away
- 3.276 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 2076 days ago · 23 km deep · 53 km away
- 3.394 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2076 days ago · 13 km deep · 19 km away
- 2.280 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2076 days ago · 29 km deep · 10 km away
- 2.9Alaska Peninsula · 2075 days ago · 26 km deep · 13 km away
- 2.6103 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2075 days ago · 13 km deep · 26 km away
- 2.495 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2075 days ago · 18 km deep · 100 km away
- 2.290 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2074 days ago · 15 km deep · 99 km away
- 2.796 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2074 days ago · 7 km deep · 97 km away
- 3.090 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2074 days ago · 27 km deep · 19 km away
- 4.251 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 2073 days ago · 43 km deep · 79 km away
- 2.291 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2072 days ago · 7 km deep · 18 km away
- 2.970 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2072 days ago · 27 km deep · 12 km away
- 1.945 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 2071 days ago · 63 km deep · 42 km away
- 3.490 km SE of False Pass, Alaska · 2070 days ago · 15 km deep · 84 km away
- 2.052 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2070 days ago · 21 km deep · 89 km away
- 1.939 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 2070 days ago · 26 km deep · 81 km away
- 2.1103 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2070 days ago · 2 km deep · 23 km away
- 2.8119 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2070 days ago · 10 km deep · 44 km away
- 3.0113 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 2070 days ago · 3 km deep · 35 km away
- 2.7112 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 2069 days ago · 25 km deep · 57 km away
- 2.058 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 2069 days ago · 20 km deep · 73 km away
- 2.896 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2069 days ago · 6 km deep · 91 km away
- 2.056 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2069 days ago · 27 km deep · 79 km away
- 5.071 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 2069 days ago · 39 km deep · 50 km away · felt by 6
- 2.196 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2068 days ago · 26 km deep · 23 km away
- 2.371 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2067 days ago · 15 km deep · 99 km away
- 2.053 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 2067 days ago · 13 km deep · 76 km away
- 3.093 km S of King Cove, Alaska · 2067 days ago · 15 km deep · 75 km away
- 2.299 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2067 days ago · 7 km deep · 96 km away
- 1.661 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 2067 days ago · 21 km deep · 25 km away
- 1.992 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 2067 days ago · 14 km deep · 93 km away
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