Alaska earthquakes

M2.9 earthquake 117 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska

A magnitude 2.9 earthquake struck 117 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska on Tue, Mar 22, 2022, 12:07 AM AKDT (08:07 UTC), 19 km (12 mi) below the surface.

A larger quake followed: M4.5 79 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska. This one was a foreshock.

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The earthquake

Magnitude
2.9 (ml), micro
Local time
UTC
2022-03-22 08:07:12 UTC
Depth
19.5 km (12.1 mi), shallow
Epicenter
54.358° N, 159.831° 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 5.6 km horizontally, 6.2 km in depth
Magnitude uncertainty
±0.13
Depth from
From location
Station coverage gap
272°, poorly surrounded by stations
Stations used
19

Nearest places

Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.

Nearby

Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 167 in the 60 days after this one and 74 in the 30 days before it.

After

  1. 2.6south of Alaska · 1653 days ago · 24 km deep · 31 km away
  2. 2.9106 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1653 days ago · 19 km deep · 11 km away
  3. 2.2100 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1652 days ago · 25 km deep · 19 km away
  4. 2.2102 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1652 days ago · 16 km deep · 17 km away
  5. 2.528 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 1652 days ago · 14 km deep · 91 km away
  6. 2.072 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1651 days ago · 13 km deep · 84 km away
  7. 2.674 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1651 days ago · 10 km deep · 84 km away
  8. 1.9120 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1650 days ago · 26 km deep · 4 km away
  9. 2.0119 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1650 days ago · 29 km deep · 7 km away
  10. 3.6118 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1650 days ago · 29 km deep · 8 km away
  11. 2.685 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1649 days ago · 24 km deep · 40 km away
  12. 1.8125 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1649 days ago · 14 km deep · 13 km away
  13. 2.9121 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1649 days ago · 21 km deep · 20 km away
  14. 2.8114 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1649 days ago · 20 km deep · 9 km away
  15. 3.0117 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1648 days ago · 22 km deep · 11 km away
  16. 2.463 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1646 days ago · 20 km deep · 56 km away
  17. 2.1105 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1645 days ago · 20 km deep · 14 km away
  18. 1.688 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 1645 days ago · 24 km deep · 40 km away
  19. 1.895 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1644 days ago · 17 km deep · 23 km away
  20. 2.091 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1644 days ago · 18 km deep · 31 km away
  21. 2.078 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1644 days ago · 10 km deep · 77 km away
  22. 2.091 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1643 days ago · 25 km deep · 35 km away
  23. 1.981 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 1643 days ago · 26 km deep · 100 km away
  24. 2.1102 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1643 days ago · 17 km deep · 18 km away
  25. 2.6114 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1643 days ago · 21 km deep · 9 km away
  26. 1.998 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1643 days ago · 29 km deep · 33 km away
  27. 2.196 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1642 days ago · 7 km deep · 24 km away
  28. 3.281 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska · 1642 days ago · 25 km deep · 98 km away
  29. 1.869 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 1642 days ago · 26 km deep · 92 km away
  30. 3.099 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1642 days ago · 19 km deep · 26 km away
  31. 1.881 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 1641 days ago · 26 km deep · 99 km away
  32. 2.197 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1641 days ago · 15 km deep · 24 km away
  33. 1.8109 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1641 days ago · 21 km deep · 8 km away
  34. 3.592 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1641 days ago · 28 km deep · 29 km away
  35. 2.788 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1640 days ago · 16 km deep · 28 km away
  36. 2.0108 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1640 days ago · 26 km deep · 14 km away
  37. 3.3134 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1640 days ago · 24 km deep · 19 km away
  38. 2.8105 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1640 days ago · 23 km deep · 15 km away
  39. 1.8104 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1639 days ago · 18 km deep · 15 km away
  40. 1.786 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1639 days ago · 19 km deep · 32 km away
  41. 3.4south of Alaska · 1639 days ago · 26 km deep · 23 km away
  42. 2.7Alaska Peninsula · 1639 days ago · 10 km deep · 95 km away
  43. 2.697 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1637 days ago · 20 km deep · 21 km away
  44. 1.958 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1637 days ago · 22 km deep · 60 km away
  45. 2.099 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1636 days ago · 23 km deep · 28 km away
  46. 2.185 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 1634 days ago · 13 km deep · 74 km away
  47. 2.395 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1634 days ago · 26 km deep · 32 km away
  48. 3.1129 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 1632 days ago · 35 km deep · 58 km away
  49. 4.1113 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 1632 days ago · 37 km deep · 67 km away
  50. 3.0109 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 1632 days ago · 25 km deep · 68 km away
  51. 1.745 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1632 days ago · 8 km deep · 88 km away
  52. 4.579 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1631 days ago · 31 km deep · 43 km away · felt by 1
  53. 3.385 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1631 days ago · 16 km deep · 35 km away
  54. 2.1100 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1631 days ago · 20 km deep · 22 km away
  55. 2.091 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1631 days ago · 25 km deep · 32 km away
  56. 2.8108 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1630 days ago · 23 km deep · 15 km away
  57. 3.3110 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1630 days ago · 18 km deep · 9 km away
  58. 2.381 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1629 days ago · 25 km deep · 46 km away
  59. 3.3202 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1629 days ago · 10 km deep · 88 km away
  60. 2.7101 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1629 days ago · 24 km deep · 20 km away

The first 60 of 167.

Before

  1. 3.2113 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1654 days ago · 10 km deep · 4 km away
  2. 3.0103 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1654 days ago · 10 km deep · 13 km away
  3. 2.1116 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1654 days ago · 27 km deep · 14 km away
  4. 2.8130 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1655 days ago · 19 km deep · 14 km away
  5. 2.2150 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1656 days ago · 22 km deep · 33 km away
  6. 2.057 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1656 days ago · 16 km deep · 61 km away
  7. 2.979 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1657 days ago · 17 km deep · 40 km away
  8. 2.9136 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1658 days ago · 20 km deep · 21 km away
  9. 4.1141 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1658 days ago · 10 km deep · 32 km away
  10. 1.959 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 1658 days ago · 21 km deep · 61 km away
  11. 2.997 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1658 days ago · 23 km deep · 30 km away
  12. 2.2107 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1660 days ago · 23 km deep · 14 km away
  13. 1.8119 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1661 days ago · 8 km deep · 5 km away
  14. 2.0123 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1661 days ago · 37 km deep · 40 km away
  15. 1.6131 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1661 days ago · 25 km deep · 15 km away
  16. 1.9112 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1661 days ago · 16 km deep · 13 km away
  17. 1.6107 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1661 days ago · 19 km deep · 16 km away
  18. 1.7113 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1661 days ago · 15 km deep · 6 km away
  19. 2.2104 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1661 days ago · 13 km deep · 13 km away
  20. 2.6112 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 1662 days ago · 19 km deep · 9 km away

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From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us7000h76f (also filed as ak0223q3c3ug). Read Thu, Oct 1, 2026, 1:24 AM UTC.