M2.6 earthquake 189 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
A magnitude 2.6 earthquake struck 189 km WSW of Adak, Alaska on Tue, Jan 3, 2023, 5:49 PM HAST (03:49 UTC), 28 km (18 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.3 191 km WSW of Adak, Alaska. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 2.6 (ML, local (Richter)), micro
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2023-01-04 03:49:38 UTC
- Depth
- 28.2 km (17.5 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 51.240° N, 179.176° W
- Region
- Alaska
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Magnitude estimates
Different scales measure different things and differ by a few tenths. The USGS marks one as preferred, and it is the one this page uses.
| Mag. | Scale | Computed by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.6 | ML, local (Richter) | USGS National Earthquake Information Center | Preferred · Reviewed · ±0.115 · 10 stations |
| 2.5 | ML, local (Richter) | Alaska Earthquake Center | Preliminary |
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 3.6 km horizontally, 9.3 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.12
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 209°, poorly surrounded by stations
- Stations used
- 22
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 106 in the 60 days after this one and 81 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.1117 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1368 days ago · 19 km deep · 73 km away
- 2.3157 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1368 days ago · 21 km deep · 41 km away
- 2.1132 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1367 days ago · 14 km deep · 60 km away
- 2.9206 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1367 days ago · 35 km deep · 25 km away
- 2.0151 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1365 days ago · 19 km deep · 38 km away
- 2.5Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 1365 days ago · 35 km deep · 11 km away
- 2.0126 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1363 days ago · 6 km deep · 64 km away
- 3.5130 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1363 days ago · 18 km deep · 60 km away
- 2.1105 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1363 days ago · 46 km deep · 86 km away
- 2.0144 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1363 days ago · 12 km deep · 58 km away
- 1.8Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 1362 days ago · 13 km deep · 68 km away
- 3.9141 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 1362 days ago · 35 km deep · 74 km away
- 2.3211 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1362 days ago · 20 km deep · 22 km away
- 2.6145 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 1361 days ago · 10 km deep · 85 km away
- 2.1128 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1361 days ago · 14 km deep · 66 km away
- 2.5Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 1358 days ago · 138 km deep · 90 km away
- 2.1130 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1357 days ago · 15 km deep · 74 km away
- 3.6135 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1356 days ago · 73 km deep · 68 km away
- 2.5128 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1356 days ago · 31 km deep · 67 km away
- 3.2260 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1356 days ago · 56 km deep · 79 km away
- 1.6125 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1356 days ago · 12 km deep · 76 km away
- 2.2157 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1355 days ago · 56 km deep · 34 km away
- 1.6Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 1355 days ago · 5 km deep · 43 km away
- 2.1164 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1355 days ago · 13 km deep · 32 km away
- 2.0206 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1354 days ago · 21 km deep · 24 km away
- 2.1242 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1353 days ago · 9 km deep · 61 km away
- 2.6214 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1353 days ago · 46 km deep · 32 km away
- 2.6Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 1353 days ago · 85 km deep · 54 km away
- 2.5104 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1351 days ago · 35 km deep · 86 km away
- 4.0208 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1351 days ago · 10 km deep · 33 km away
- 3.1216 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1351 days ago · 35 km deep · 28 km away
- 3.1193 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1346 days ago · 99 km deep · 60 km away
- 2.8234 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1345 days ago · 10 km deep · 79 km away
- 2.1129 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1345 days ago · 24 km deep · 61 km away
- 1.6Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 1345 days ago · 13 km deep · 93 km away
- 1.798 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1344 days ago · 10 km deep · 92 km away
- 1.992 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1344 days ago · 60 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.8117 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1343 days ago · 33 km deep · 72 km away
- 3.0182 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1343 days ago · 26 km deep · 34 km away
- 3.4107 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 1343 days ago · 44 km deep · 99 km away
- 2.2116 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1342 days ago · 47 km deep · 74 km away
- 1.6145 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1342 days ago · 7 km deep · 71 km away
- 2.9115 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1342 days ago · 33 km deep · 75 km away
- 2.1253 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1342 days ago · 13 km deep · 71 km away
- 2.6Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 1341 days ago · 10 km deep · 87 km away
- 3.3124 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 1341 days ago · 35 km deep · 74 km away
- 3.6Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 1341 days ago · 41 km deep · 71 km away
- 2.1249 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1340 days ago · 5 km deep · 75 km away
- 2.6190 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1339 days ago · 29 km deep · 16 km away
- 3.3233 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1339 days ago · 21 km deep · 46 km away
- 3.1274 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1339 days ago · 65 km deep · 97 km away
- 3.1167 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1339 days ago · 35 km deep · 30 km away
- 2.7158 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1338 days ago · 33 km deep · 38 km away
- 3.3212 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1338 days ago · 122 km deep · 89 km away
- 2.8159 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1337 days ago · 10 km deep · 32 km away
- 2.1121 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 1336 days ago · 25 km deep · 82 km away
- 2.7127 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 1336 days ago · 35 km deep · 79 km away
- 2.3179 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1336 days ago · 31 km deep · 11 km away
- 2.3142 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1335 days ago · 13 km deep · 51 km away
- 2.2165 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1334 days ago · 22 km deep · 25 km away
The first 60 of 106.
Before
- 2.3212 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1369 days ago · 94 km deep · 82 km away
- 2.8267 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1369 days ago · 56 km deep · 87 km away
- 1.9159 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1369 days ago · 23 km deep · 31 km away
- 1.8128 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1369 days ago · 13 km deep · 65 km away
- 2.1174 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1369 days ago · 39 km deep · 16 km away
- 2.1Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 1369 days ago · 7 km deep · 41 km away
- 2.2244 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1369 days ago · 13 km deep · 56 km away
- 2.0146 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1369 days ago · 22 km deep · 49 km away
- 4.2210 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1370 days ago · 32 km deep · 27 km away
- 3.4102 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1370 days ago · 33 km deep · 91 km away
- 2.1106 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1370 days ago · 13 km deep · 85 km away
- 2.0Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 1371 days ago · 14 km deep · 49 km away
- 2.0Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 1372 days ago · 67 km deep · 57 km away
- 2.1228 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1372 days ago · 19 km deep · 39 km away
- 2.7111 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1374 days ago · 32 km deep · 78 km away
- 2.1128 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1375 days ago · 24 km deep · 65 km away
- 2.8207 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1375 days ago · 35 km deep · 26 km away
- 1.6153 km W of Adak, Alaska · 1375 days ago · 5 km deep · 64 km away
- 2.9244 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1375 days ago · 35 km deep · 55 km away
- 2.2148 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 1376 days ago · 24 km deep · 47 km away
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