M2.1 earthquake 105 km S of McCarthy, Alaska
A magnitude 2.1 earthquake struck 105 km S of McCarthy, Alaska on Mon, May 17, 2021, 3:13 PM AKDT (23:13 UTC), 0 km (0 mi) below the surface.
Automatic solution: the magnitude and location may still be revised.
A larger quake followed: M2.4 145 km WNW of Yakutat, Alaska. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 2.1 (ml), micro
- Local time
- UTC
- 2021-05-17 23:13:02 UTC
- Depth
- 0.0 km (0.0 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 60.484° N, 143.032° W
- Region
- Alaska
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Automatic solution, may be revised
Did you feel it?
No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.
How well it is located
An automatic solution; a seismologist may revise it.
- Stations used
- 23
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 14 in the 60 days after this one and 6 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 1.6134 km SE of McCarthy, Alaska · 1957 days ago · 14 km deep · 89 km away
- 1.8132 km NW of Yakutat, Alaska · 1957 days ago · 1 km deep · 88 km away
- 1.5131 km NW of Yakutat, Alaska · 1957 days ago · 0 km deep · 81 km away
- 1.566 km E of Cordova, Alaska · 1957 days ago · 15 km deep · 84 km away
- 1.5120 km NW of Yakutat, Alaska · 1952 days ago · 7 km deep · 96 km away
- 1.6122 km WNW of Yakutat, Alaska · 1950 days ago · 0 km deep · 97 km away
- 1.7122 km SSE of McCarthy, Alaska · 1948 days ago · 0 km deep · 63 km away
- 1.5138 km SE of Cordova, Alaska · 1944 days ago · 110 km deep · 93 km away
- 1.8141 km WNW of Yakutat, Alaska · 1931 days ago · 10 km deep · 72 km away
- 1.7130 km S of McCarthy, Alaska · 1924 days ago · 2 km deep · 27 km away
- 2.4145 km WNW of Yakutat, Alaska · 1922 days ago · 10 km deep · 66 km away
- 2.0116 km SSE of McCarthy, Alaska · 1921 days ago · 5 km deep · 71 km away
- 1.6105 km E of Cordova, Alaska · 1917 days ago · 0 km deep · 46 km away
- 1.8103 km S of McCarthy, Alaska · 1910 days ago · 2 km deep · 7 km away
Before
- 1.5133 km NW of Yakutat, Alaska · 1963 days ago · 6 km deep · 82 km away
- 1.694 km S of McCarthy, Alaska · 1969 days ago · 7 km deep · 20 km away
- 1.598 km E of Cordova, Alaska · 1979 days ago · 9 km deep · 52 km away
- 1.6113 km SE of McCarthy, Alaska · 1984 days ago · 15 km deep · 77 km away
- 1.597 km S of McCarthy, Alaska · 1985 days ago · 8 km deep · 8 km away
- 2.0130 km NW of Yakutat, Alaska · 1985 days ago · 6 km deep · 82 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event ak0216ayeb3f. Read Mon, Sep 28, 2026, 3:02 PM UTC.