M1.5 earthquake 35 km W of McKinley Park, Alaska
A magnitude 1.5 earthquake struck 35 km W of McKinley Park, Alaska on Wed, Jan 6, 2021, 12:43 PM AKST (21:43 UTC), 117 km (73 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M3.8 67 km ESE of Denali National Park, Alaska. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 1.5 (ml), micro
- Local time
- UTC
- 2021-01-06 21:43:28 UTC
- Depth
- 117.3 km (72.9 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 63.683° N, 149.624° 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
- 39
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 194 in the 60 days after this one and 88 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 1.954 km NNE of Chase, Alaska · 2093 days ago · 76 km deep · 88 km away
- 2.166 km NNE of Petersville, Alaska · 2093 days ago · 107 km deep · 78 km away
- 1.955 km SW of Cantwell, Alaska · 2093 days ago · 88 km deep · 71 km away
- 3.246 km WSW of Cantwell, Alaska · 2092 days ago · 99 km deep · 47 km away
- 3.556 km SW of Cantwell, Alaska · 2092 days ago · 78 km deep · 79 km away
- 2.257 km SW of Cantwell, Alaska · 2092 days ago · 75 km deep · 79 km away
- 1.527 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2091 days ago · 2 km deep · 91 km away
- 2.538 km E of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2091 days ago · 19 km deep · 67 km away
- 3.867 km ESE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2091 days ago · 127 km deep · 69 km away
- 1.539 km E of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2091 days ago · 8 km deep · 68 km away
- 2.010 km ESE of Cantwell, Alaska · 2090 days ago · 93 km deep · 56 km away
- 1.748 km NE of Chase, Alaska · 2090 days ago · 69 km deep · 98 km away
- 1.563 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2090 days ago · 129 km deep · 81 km away
- 1.570 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2090 days ago · 115 km deep · 74 km away
- 2.128 km SSW of Cantwell, Alaska · 2090 days ago · 1 km deep · 60 km away
- 3.265 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2089 days ago · 126 km deep · 77 km away
- 2.570 km ESE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2089 days ago · 118 km deep · 67 km away
- 1.961 km ESE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2089 days ago · 129 km deep · 65 km away
- 1.765 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2089 days ago · 125 km deep · 75 km away
- 1.67 km S of Ferry, Alaska · 2089 days ago · 121 km deep · 39 km away
- 1.645 km WSW of McKinley Park, Alaska · 2089 days ago · 124 km deep · 10 km away
- 1.564 km W of Cantwell, Alaska · 2088 days ago · 5 km deep · 49 km away
- 1.554 km SSW of Cantwell, Alaska · 2088 days ago · 64 km deep · 84 km away
- 2.961 km E of McKinley Park, Alaska · 2088 days ago · 5 km deep · 96 km away
- 1.662 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2088 days ago · 123 km deep · 84 km away
- 1.536 km SSE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2088 days ago · 3 km deep · 97 km away
- 1.869 km ESE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2088 days ago · 4 km deep · 46 km away
- 1.657 km WNW of Cantwell, Alaska · 2088 days ago · 116 km deep · 27 km away
- 1.569 km W of Cantwell, Alaska · 2088 days ago · 6 km deep · 45 km away
- 1.638 km ENE of Cantwell, Alaska · 2088 days ago · 5 km deep · 75 km away
- 1.535 km E of Cantwell, Alaska · 2088 days ago · 13 km deep · 73 km away
- 1.841 km NNE of Chase, Alaska · 2087 days ago · 72 km deep · 98 km away
- 2.069 km W of Cantwell, Alaska · 2086 days ago · 7 km deep · 45 km away
- 2.459 km WSW of Cantwell, Alaska · 2086 days ago · 10 km deep · 54 km away
- 2.456 km WSW of Cantwell, Alaska · 2086 days ago · 13 km deep · 52 km away
- 1.568 km ESE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2086 days ago · 124 km deep · 63 km away
- 1.717 km E of Ferry, Alaska · 2086 days ago · 1 km deep · 56 km away
- 1.563 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2086 days ago · 128 km deep · 82 km away
- 1.534 km SSE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2085 days ago · 7 km deep · 99 km away
- 1.563 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2085 days ago · 128 km deep · 87 km away
- 1.564 km ESE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2085 days ago · 128 km deep · 64 km away
- 1.612 km N of Cantwell, Alaska · 2085 days ago · 92 km deep · 39 km away
- 1.558 km NNE of Chase, Alaska · 2085 days ago · 77 km deep · 82 km away
- 1.737 km E of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2085 days ago · 7 km deep · 68 km away
- 1.647 km N of Petersville, Alaska · 2084 days ago · 89 km deep · 98 km away
- 1.566 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2084 days ago · 116 km deep · 80 km away
- 1.727 km WNW of Cantwell, Alaska · 2084 days ago · 98 km deep · 22 km away
- 1.641 km WNW of Cantwell, Alaska · 2084 days ago · 97 km deep · 24 km away
- 2.251 km NNE of Petersville, Alaska · 2083 days ago · 102 km deep · 94 km away
- 1.561 km NNW of Petersville, Alaska · 2082 days ago · 124 km deep · 100 km away
- 2.234 km ESE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2082 days ago · 13 km deep · 83 km away
- 2.061 km N of Petersville, Alaska · 2081 days ago · 126 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.845 km SSW of Cantwell, Alaska · 2081 days ago · 72 km deep · 78 km away
- 1.667 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2081 days ago · 122 km deep · 86 km away
- 2.371 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2080 days ago · 126 km deep · 73 km away
- 1.926 km ENE of Cantwell, Alaska · 2080 days ago · 0 km deep · 64 km away
- 2.449 km SW of Cantwell, Alaska · 2080 days ago · 97 km deep · 60 km away
- 1.746 km E of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2080 days ago · 10 km deep · 61 km away
- 1.571 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2079 days ago · 137 km deep · 77 km away
- 1.570 km WSW of Cantwell, Alaska · 2079 days ago · 94 km deep · 65 km away
The first 60 of 194.
Before
- 1.9Central Alaska · 2093 days ago · 118 km deep · 83 km away
- 2.971 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2093 days ago · 115 km deep · 74 km away
- 1.648 km E of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2094 days ago · 14 km deep · 57 km away
- 1.758 km SW of Cantwell, Alaska · 2094 days ago · 15 km deep · 79 km away
- 3.851 km ESE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2094 days ago · 153 km deep · 64 km away · felt by 10
- 1.543 km ESE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2094 days ago · 19 km deep · 67 km away
- 2.645 km N of Chase, Alaska · 2094 days ago · 76 km deep · 94 km away · felt by 1
- 1.757 km N of Petersville, Alaska · 2094 days ago · 111 km deep · 91 km away
- 1.663 km ESE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2094 days ago · 126 km deep · 67 km away
- 1.565 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2094 days ago · 123 km deep · 90 km away
- 1.550 km N of Petersville, Alaska · 2095 days ago · 104 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.543 km SSE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2095 days ago · 9 km deep · 99 km away
- 2.242 km SSE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2095 days ago · 10 km deep · 99 km away
- 2.261 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2096 days ago · 129 km deep · 85 km away
- 1.514 km E of McKinley Park, Alaska · 2097 days ago · 39 km deep · 50 km away
- 1.858 km SW of Cantwell, Alaska · 2097 days ago · 75 km deep · 80 km away
- 2.127 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2097 days ago · 13 km deep · 94 km away
- 2.653 km WSW of McKinley Park, Alaska · 2097 days ago · 138 km deep · 19 km away · felt by 1
- 2.860 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska · 2097 days ago · 131 km deep · 83 km away
- 1.950 km N of Petersville, Alaska · 2098 days ago · 102 km deep · 100 km away
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