Alaska earthquakes

M3.5 earthquake 78 km SW of False Pass, Alaska

A magnitude 3.5 earthquake struck 78 km SW of False Pass, Alaska on Sun, Apr 24, 2022, 6:33 PM AKDT (02:33 UTC), 103 km (64 mi) below the surface.

A larger quake followed: M4.2 40 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska. This one was a foreshock.

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The earthquake

Magnitude
3.5 (mb), minor
Local time
UTC
2022-04-25 02:33:03 UTC
Depth
103.4 km (64.3 mi), intermediate-depth
Epicenter
54.391° N, 164.323° 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

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Location uncertainty
About 8.4 km horizontally, 7.7 km in depth
Magnitude uncertainty
±0.19
Depth from
From location
Station coverage gap
160°
Stations used
24

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Nearby

Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: at least 199 in the 60 days after this one and 86 in the 30 days before it.

After

The first 60 of at least 199.

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Sources

From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us7000hhd9 (also filed as ak0225a86uva). Read Sun, Sep 27, 2026, 11:31 AM UTC.