M2.3 earthquake 112 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska
A magnitude 2.3 earthquake struck 112 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska on Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 6:10 AM AKDT (14:10 UTC), 10 km (6 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.7 36 km S of Sand Point, Alaska. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 2.3 (ML, local (Richter)), micro
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2024-09-30 14:10:01 UTC
- Depth
- 10.0 km (6.2 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 54.406° N, 159.813° 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.3 | ML, local (Richter) | USGS National Earthquake Information Center | Preferred · Reviewed · ±0.128 · 8 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 3.5 km horizontally, 1.9 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.13
- Depth from
- Operator assigned
- Station coverage gap
- 246°, 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: 101 in the 60 days after this one and 50 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.4103 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 734 days ago · 9 km deep · 13 km away
- 2.5114 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 733 days ago · 10 km deep · 2 km away
- 2.4134 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 733 days ago · 12 km deep · 22 km away
- 3.2114 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 729 days ago · 29 km deep · 47 km away
- 2.3116 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 728 days ago · 20 km deep · 18 km away
- 2.0107 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 725 days ago · 0 km deep · 82 km away
- 4.736 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 725 days ago · 53 km deep · 79 km away · felt by 159
- 2.7129 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 723 days ago · 35 km deep · 21 km away
- 2.5133 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 722 days ago · 35 km deep · 22 km away
- 2.734 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 722 days ago · 51 km deep · 79 km away
- 2.338 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 722 days ago · 14 km deep · 75 km away
- 2.987 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 721 days ago · 35 km deep · 88 km away
- 3.193 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 720 days ago · 10 km deep · 23 km away
- 3.3116 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 719 days ago · 35 km deep · 62 km away
- 2.181 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 719 days ago · 12 km deep · 31 km away
- 2.193 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 719 days ago · 11 km deep · 22 km away
- 3.669 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska · 719 days ago · 10 km deep · 81 km away
- 1.954 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska · 719 days ago · 5 km deep · 93 km away
- 3.973 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska · 718 days ago · 12 km deep · 83 km away · felt by 2
- 2.6123 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 718 days ago · 10 km deep · 11 km away
- 2.742 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 717 days ago · 10 km deep · 79 km away
- 2.962 km E of Sand Point, Alaska · 717 days ago · 10 km deep · 94 km away
- 2.069 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 716 days ago · 14 km deep · 66 km away
- 2.396 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 716 days ago · 13 km deep · 19 km away
- 3.0105 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 716 days ago · 10 km deep · 20 km away
- 2.977 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 715 days ago · 31 km deep · 40 km away
- 2.268 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska · 715 days ago · 4 km deep · 89 km away
- 1.9104 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 714 days ago · 26 km deep · 53 km away
- 2.071 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska · 714 days ago · 13 km deep · 86 km away
- 2.8117 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 714 days ago · 27 km deep · 7 km away
- 2.262 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska · 713 days ago · 0 km deep · 89 km away
- 3.1117 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 712 days ago · 7 km deep · 77 km away
- 2.4113 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 710 days ago · 33 km deep · 1 km away
- 2.6116 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 709 days ago · 10 km deep · 4 km away
- 2.3102 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 708 days ago · 13 km deep · 11 km away
- 2.7125 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 708 days ago · 10 km deep · 16 km away
- 2.391 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 708 days ago · 18 km deep · 23 km away
- 3.336 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 707 days ago · 10 km deep · 94 km away
- 2.296 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 707 days ago · 28 km deep · 23 km away
- 3.735 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 706 days ago · 9 km deep · 88 km away
- 1.980 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 705 days ago · 13 km deep · 100 km away
- 2.8125 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 705 days ago · 35 km deep · 16 km away
- 2.9117 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 704 days ago · 35 km deep · 6 km away
- 2.680 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 704 days ago · 15 km deep · 73 km away
- 2.4123 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 703 days ago · 24 km deep · 14 km away
- 2.677 km ESE of Sand Point, Alaska · 703 days ago · 35 km deep · 92 km away
- 3.388 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 702 days ago · 35 km deep · 25 km away
- 2.147 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 701 days ago · 60 km deep · 87 km away
- 3.2116 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 697 days ago · 10 km deep · 4 km away
- 3.036 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 697 days ago · 6 km deep · 85 km away
- 3.530 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 697 days ago · 10 km deep · 92 km away
- 3.3122 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 695 days ago · 10 km deep · 10 km away
- 2.7123 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 695 days ago · 10 km deep · 10 km away
- 4.3125 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 695 days ago · 23 km deep · 13 km away
- 3.6117 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 695 days ago · 10 km deep · 8 km away
- 2.7123 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 695 days ago · 10 km deep · 12 km away
- 2.7129 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 695 days ago · 27 km deep · 19 km away
- 2.4133 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 695 days ago · 26 km deep · 23 km away
- 2.8146 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 695 days ago · 10 km deep · 35 km away
- 2.7111 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 694 days ago · 35 km deep · 4 km away
The first 60 of 101.
Before
- 3.3123 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 734 days ago · 10 km deep · 11 km away
- 2.2100 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 735 days ago · 26 km deep · 12 km away
- 3.0198 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 736 days ago · 10 km deep · 92 km away
- 3.0110 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 737 days ago · 28 km deep · 5 km away
- 2.999 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 737 days ago · 35 km deep · 18 km away
- 2.988 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 739 days ago · 6 km deep · 92 km away
- 3.7101 km SE of King Cove, Alaska · 739 days ago · 9 km deep · 88 km away
- 2.741 km E of Sand Point, Alaska · 740 days ago · 59 km deep · 100 km away
- 3.3133 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 742 days ago · 10 km deep · 21 km away
- 2.8111 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 742 days ago · 10 km deep · 9 km away
- 3.3123 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 742 days ago · 35 km deep · 14 km away
- 2.9118 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 742 days ago · 14 km deep · 12 km away
- 3.2118 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 743 days ago · 10 km deep · 11 km away
- 2.2120 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 743 days ago · 20 km deep · 9 km away
- 1.844 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska · 744 days ago · 26 km deep · 69 km away
- 2.3123 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 745 days ago · 29 km deep · 16 km away
- 2.9126 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 746 days ago · 30 km deep · 17 km away
- 3.1139 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 747 days ago · 10 km deep · 72 km away
- 2.7136 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 748 days ago · 10 km deep · 67 km away
- 2.2116 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska · 748 days ago · 25 km deep · 6 km away
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