M1.7 earthquake 69 km ENE of Ouzinkie, Alaska
A magnitude 1.7 earthquake struck 69 km ENE of Ouzinkie, Alaska on Wed, Apr 21, 2021, 7:51 AM AKDT (15:51 UTC), 46 km (28 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M3.4 62 km NNE of Aleneva, Alaska. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 1.7 (ml), micro
- Local time
- UTC
- 2021-04-21 15:51:53 UTC
- Depth
- 45.6 km (28.3 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 58.188° N, 151.433° 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
- 25
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 25 in the 60 days after this one and 12 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.0Kodiak Island region, Alaska · 1988 days ago · 46 km deep · 15 km away
- 1.848 km SSW of Nanwalek, Alaska · 1987 days ago · 70 km deep · 99 km away
- 1.677 km NNE of Aleneva, Alaska · 1984 days ago · 60 km deep · 87 km away
- 1.643 km SSW of Nanwalek, Alaska · 1983 days ago · 79 km deep · 98 km away
- 3.259 km ENE of Ouzinkie, Alaska · 1983 days ago · 1 km deep · 11 km away
- 2.19 km W of Ouzinkie, Alaska · 1981 days ago · 42 km deep · 78 km away
- 1.96 km E of Womens Bay, Alaska · 1980 days ago · 43 km deep · 88 km away
- 3.462 km NNE of Aleneva, Alaska · 1980 days ago · 27 km deep · 65 km away
- 3.0100 km NE of Ouzinkie, Alaska · 1973 days ago · 1 km deep · 34 km away
- 1.965 km NE of Aleneva, Alaska · 1972 days ago · 36 km deep · 60 km away
- 2.366 km ENE of Ouzinkie, Alaska · 1968 days ago · 31 km deep · 10 km away
- 1.965 km ENE of Ouzinkie, Alaska · 1967 days ago · 29 km deep · 5 km away
- 1.933 km NNE of Ouzinkie, Alaska · 1967 days ago · 21 km deep · 52 km away
- 1.712 km S of Chiniak, Alaska · 1965 days ago · 7 km deep · 90 km away
- 1.780 km ENE of Chiniak, Alaska · 1962 days ago · 25 km deep · 46 km away
- 2.467 km ENE of Ouzinkie, Alaska · 1952 days ago · 35 km deep · 2 km away
- 1.633 km N of Aleneva, Alaska · 1951 days ago · 56 km deep · 88 km away
- 2.3113 km ENE of Ouzinkie, Alaska · 1946 days ago · 24 km deep · 44 km away
- 2.940 km ENE of Kodiak, Alaska · 1943 days ago · 15 km deep · 35 km away · felt by 1
- 2.161 km ENE of Ouzinkie, Alaska · 1941 days ago · 5 km deep · 11 km away
- 1.942 km S of Nanwalek, Alaska · 1940 days ago · 43 km deep · 92 km away
- 2.436 km ENE of Ouzinkie, Alaska · 1938 days ago · 35 km deep · 33 km away
- 2.311 km ESE of Womens Bay, Alaska · 1933 days ago · 32 km deep · 85 km away
- 3.051 km ENE of Ouzinkie, Alaska · 1932 days ago · 45 km deep · 21 km away
- 2.286 km E of Chiniak, Alaska · 1929 days ago · 121 km deep · 62 km away
Before
- 1.974 km ENE of Ouzinkie, Alaska · 1988 days ago · 46 km deep · 10 km away
- 1.850 km SSW of Nanwalek, Alaska · 1990 days ago · 65 km deep · 96 km away
- 1.8111 km SSE of Port Graham, Alaska · 1993 days ago · 45 km deep · 50 km away
- 1.894 km ENE of Kodiak, Alaska · 1993 days ago · 48 km deep · 33 km away
- 1.576 km SSW of Nanwalek, Alaska · 1994 days ago · 0 km deep · 90 km away
- 1.9104 km ENE of Ouzinkie, Alaska · 1996 days ago · 44 km deep · 35 km away
- 1.771 km ENE of Ouzinkie, Alaska · 2002 days ago · 23 km deep · 6 km away
- 1.770 km SW of Nanwalek, Alaska · 2005 days ago · 77 km deep · 99 km away
- 1.953 km S of Port Graham, Alaska · 2016 days ago · 52 km deep · 78 km away
- 2.2115 km ENE of Ouzinkie, Alaska · 2017 days ago · 12 km deep · 45 km away
- 1.772 km S of Nanwalek, Alaska · 2017 days ago · 4 km deep · 72 km away
- 1.836 km ENE of Ouzinkie, Alaska · 2018 days ago · 48 km deep · 33 km away
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