M2.1 earthquake 51 km SSE of Ugashik, Alaska
A magnitude 2.1 earthquake struck 51 km SSE of Ugashik, Alaska on Tue, May 4, 2021, 2:48 PM AKDT (22:48 UTC), 90 km (56 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M3.4 105 km ENE of Chignik, 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
- 2021-05-04 22:48:31 UTC
- Depth
- 90.1 km (56.0 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 57.067° N, 157.163° 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
- 24
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 21 in the 60 days after this one and 19 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.331 km E of Chignik, Alaska · 1965 days ago · 92 km deep · 95 km away
- 1.8Alaska Peninsula · 1962 days ago · 12 km deep · 25 km away
- 1.873 km SE of Ugashik, Alaska · 1960 days ago · 69 km deep · 44 km away
- 1.686 km SSE of Ugashik, Alaska · 1953 days ago · 71 km deep · 35 km away
- 2.633 km ENE of Port Heiden, Alaska · 1951 days ago · 141 km deep · 58 km away
- 1.889 km SE of Ugashik, Alaska · 1948 days ago · 0 km deep · 56 km away
- 2.562 km ENE of Ugashik, Alaska · 1941 days ago · 132 km deep · 86 km away
- 2.244 km E of Ugashik, Alaska · 1941 days ago · 119 km deep · 56 km away
- 3.4105 km ENE of Chignik, Alaska · 1940 days ago · 82 km deep · 69 km away · felt by 1
- 2.8104 km WSW of Akhiok, Alaska · 1940 days ago · 10 km deep · 99 km away
- 2.084 km SSE of Ugashik, Alaska · 1939 days ago · 89 km deep · 33 km away
- 1.770 km ENE of Chignik, Alaska · 1932 days ago · 60 km deep · 62 km away
- 2.197 km SE of Ugashik, Alaska · 1929 days ago · 35 km deep · 55 km away
- 2.882 km ENE of Chignik, Alaska · 1926 days ago · 55 km deep · 52 km away
- 1.876 km ENE of Ugashik, Alaska · 1923 days ago · 124 km deep · 100 km away
- 1.676 km WSW of Karluk, Alaska · 1917 days ago · 61 km deep · 100 km away
- 2.287 km ENE of Chignik, Alaska · 1916 days ago · 65 km deep · 53 km away
- 2.5110 km E of Chignik, Alaska · 1915 days ago · 54 km deep · 95 km away
- 1.569 km ENE of Ugashik, Alaska · 1914 days ago · 128 km deep · 95 km away
- 2.3124 km WSW of Akhiok, Alaska · 1913 days ago · 81 km deep · 81 km away
- 2.645 km SSW of Ugashik, Alaska · 1913 days ago · 23 km deep · 36 km away
Before
- 1.783 km WSW of Karluk, Alaska · 1975 days ago · 26 km deep · 92 km away
- 2.295 km WSW of Karluk, Alaska · 1978 days ago · 61 km deep · 78 km away
- 2.191 km SSE of Ugashik, Alaska · 1985 days ago · 77 km deep · 40 km away
- 2.249 km SE of Ugashik, Alaska · 1986 days ago · 107 km deep · 21 km away
- 1.887 km E of Ugashik, Alaska · 1987 days ago · 76 km deep · 94 km away
- 1.655 km ENE of Ugashik, Alaska · 1988 days ago · 124 km deep · 83 km away
- 2.328 km N of Pilot Point, Alaska · 1991 days ago · 189 km deep · 86 km away
- 2.6114 km E of Chignik, Alaska · 1993 days ago · 51 km deep · 99 km away
- 2.7101 km SE of Ugashik, Alaska · 1993 days ago · 57 km deep · 57 km away
- 1.687 km E of Ugashik, Alaska · 1995 days ago · 2 km deep · 92 km away
- 2.3100 km W of Akhiok, Alaska · 1995 days ago · 7 km deep · 82 km away
- 2.127 km E of Chignik, Alaska · 1996 days ago · 62 km deep · 100 km away
- 2.378 km E of Chignik, Alaska · 1996 days ago · 23 km deep · 99 km away
- 1.9115 km SE of Ugashik, Alaska · 1996 days ago · 20 km deep · 75 km away
- 2.240 km E of Ugashik, Alaska · 1997 days ago · 138 km deep · 59 km away
- 3.163 km ENE of Ugashik, Alaska · 1998 days ago · 136 km deep · 92 km away · felt by 2
- 2.038 km SSE of Ugashik, Alaska · 1998 days ago · 14 km deep · 13 km away
- 2.586 km SE of Ugashik, Alaska · 1999 days ago · 67 km deep · 45 km away
- 1.974 km ENE of Ugashik, Alaska · 2000 days ago · 8 km deep · 88 km away
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