M3.0 earthquake 217 km W of Adak, Alaska
A magnitude 3.0 earthquake struck 217 km W of Adak, Alaska on Sun, Jan 9, 2022, 10:12 AM HAST (20:12 UTC), 87 km (54 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.1 Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 3.0 (ml), minor
- Local time
- UTC
- 2022-01-09 20:12:07 UTC
- Depth
- 86.8 km (54.0 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 51.755° N, 179.778° 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 5.7 km horizontally, 6.0 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.12
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 139°
- Stations used
- 17
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 107 in the 60 days after this one and 22 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.5202 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1724 days ago · 17 km deep · 78 km away
- 5.0242 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1722 days ago · 38 km deep · 69 km away · tsunami flag
- 2.1238 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1722 days ago · 15 km deep · 65 km away
- 2.0241 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1722 days ago · 26 km deep · 65 km away
- 5.1Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 1722 days ago · 47 km deep · 68 km away · felt by 1
- 3.4191 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1722 days ago · 33 km deep · 79 km away
- 3.1192 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1722 days ago · 30 km deep · 86 km away
- 2.3191 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1722 days ago · 22 km deep · 84 km away
- 2.2192 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1722 days ago · 23 km deep · 82 km away
- 2.1192 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1722 days ago · 22 km deep · 80 km away
- 2.8198 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1722 days ago · 28 km deep · 78 km away
- 2.1194 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1722 days ago · 16 km deep · 83 km away
- 2.2198 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1722 days ago · 19 km deep · 83 km away
- 2.9199 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1722 days ago · 22 km deep · 86 km away
- 2.8Andreanof Isl., Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 1721 days ago · 10 km deep · 41 km away
- 2.1239 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1721 days ago · 26 km deep · 66 km away
- 1.5130 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1721 days ago · 7 km deep · 90 km away
- 1.7181 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1721 days ago · 8 km deep · 38 km away
- 3.0142 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1720 days ago · 84 km deep · 80 km away
- 2.3120 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1718 days ago · 106 km deep · 96 km away
- 2.3208 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1717 days ago · 35 km deep · 65 km away
- 2.9180 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1717 days ago · 18 km deep · 41 km away
- 2.2225 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1717 days ago · 19 km deep · 55 km away
- 2.0203 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1717 days ago · 63 km deep · 37 km away
- 2.8200 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1716 days ago · 94 km deep · 21 km away
- 2.1187 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1716 days ago · 20 km deep · 61 km away
- 1.8189 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1716 days ago · 19 km deep · 57 km away
- 2.8210 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1716 days ago · 17 km deep · 18 km away
- 2.7257 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1716 days ago · 46 km deep · 57 km away
- 2.3191 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1716 days ago · 22 km deep · 63 km away
- 1.9153 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1716 days ago · 38 km deep · 83 km away
- 2.5180 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1715 days ago · 10 km deep · 41 km away
- 3.1Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 1715 days ago · 130 km deep · 89 km away
- 3.5246 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1715 days ago · 58 km deep · 48 km away
- 2.0264 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1712 days ago · 63 km deep · 50 km away
- 1.6138 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1712 days ago · 24 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.1244 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1711 days ago · 63 km deep · 38 km away
- 3.0237 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1711 days ago · 23 km deep · 64 km away
- 3.1175 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1711 days ago · 35 km deep · 86 km away
- 1.9198 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1711 days ago · 5 km deep · 99 km away
- 2.1187 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1710 days ago · 103 km deep · 29 km away
- 1.6259 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1710 days ago · 5 km deep · 48 km away
- 1.8178 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1710 days ago · 24 km deep · 87 km away
- 1.6183 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1710 days ago · 23 km deep · 84 km away
- 1.9218 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1709 days ago · 83 km deep · 8 km away
- 3.6244 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1709 days ago · 10 km deep · 82 km away
- 2.2157 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1707 days ago · 65 km deep · 71 km away
- 1.5259 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1705 days ago · 6 km deep · 47 km away
- 2.5234 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1703 days ago · 10 km deep · 18 km away
- 2.6260 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1702 days ago · 61 km deep · 49 km away
- 1.8155 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1702 days ago · 17 km deep · 65 km away
- 3.7138 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1702 days ago · 65 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.0194 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1700 days ago · 17 km deep · 82 km away
- 2.6260 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1700 days ago · 55 km deep · 54 km away
- 1.6154 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1699 days ago · 8 km deep · 63 km away
- 1.9197 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1699 days ago · 8 km deep · 48 km away
- 2.8255 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1699 days ago · 4 km deep · 44 km away
- 2.1257 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1698 days ago · 47 km deep · 52 km away
- 1.7170 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1698 days ago · 14 km deep · 76 km away
- 1.6155 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1698 days ago · 15 km deep · 73 km away
The first 60 of 107.
Before
- 3.2281 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1727 days ago · 25 km deep · 96 km away
- 1.8128 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1727 days ago · 10 km deep · 98 km away
- 2.9210 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1733 days ago · 10 km deep · 18 km away
- 3.1155 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1737 days ago · 34 km deep · 95 km away
- 2.7227 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1738 days ago · 13 km deep · 48 km away
- 3.1216 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1740 days ago · 124 km deep · 33 km away
- 1.5126 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1742 days ago · 10 km deep · 91 km away
- 2.9212 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1743 days ago · 26 km deep · 71 km away
- 1.9128 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1743 days ago · 13 km deep · 94 km away
- 2.3202 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1744 days ago · 14 km deep · 57 km away
- 3.4237 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1745 days ago · 28 km deep · 20 km away
- 2.8196 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1745 days ago · 121 km deep · 24 km away
- 1.8167 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1745 days ago · 11 km deep · 50 km away
- 3.4132 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1745 days ago · 74 km deep · 95 km away
- 1.7134 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1746 days ago · 28 km deep · 99 km away
- 2.5273 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1746 days ago · 10 km deep · 85 km away
- 3.9298 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1748 days ago · 132 km deep · 83 km away
- 2.0Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 1748 days ago · 61 km deep · 96 km away
- 1.8146 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1752 days ago · 24 km deep · 92 km away
- 1.7262 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1752 days ago · 9 km deep · 49 km away
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From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us7000gi5g (also filed as ak022f7tdos). Read Thu, Oct 1, 2026, 1:06 AM UTC.