M3.2 earthquake 201 km SSE of Unalaska, Alaska
A magnitude 3.2 earthquake struck 201 km SSE of Unalaska, Alaska on Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 8:05 AM AKST (17:05 UTC), 10 km (6 mi) below the surface.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 3.2 (ML, local (Richter)), minor
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2024-01-21 17:05:55 UTC
- Depth
- 10.0 km (6.2 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 52.263° N, 165.169° 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.2 | ML, local (Richter) | USGS National Earthquake Information Center | Preferred · Reviewed · ±0.105 · 12 stations |
| 3.0 | 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 8.0 km horizontally, 2.0 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.10
- Depth from
- From modeling of broad-band P waveforms
- Station coverage gap
- 248°, poorly surrounded by stations
- Stations used
- 17
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 12 in the 60 days after this one and 6 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.9167 km SSE of Unalaska, Alaska · 985 days ago · 10 km deep · 47 km away
- 3.1203 km SSE of Unalaska, Alaska · 985 days ago · 17 km deep · 7 km away
- 3.1179 km SSE of Unalaska, Alaska · 984 days ago · 10 km deep · 40 km away
- 3.1231 km SSE of Akutan, Alaska · 972 days ago · 10 km deep · 87 km away
- 2.3113 km SSE of Unalaska, Alaska · 967 days ago · 26 km deep · 88 km away
- 3.2253 km SSE of Unalaska, Alaska · 946 days ago · 15 km deep · 57 km away
- 2.9199 km SSE of Unalaska, Alaska · 940 days ago · 10 km deep · 10 km away
- 2.8203 km SE of Akutan, Alaska · 939 days ago · 10 km deep · 94 km away
- 2.2193 km SSE of Unalaska, Alaska · 932 days ago · 7 km deep · 17 km away
- 3.0215 km SSE of Akutan, Alaska · 931 days ago · 10 km deep · 81 km away
- 2.1145 km S of Unalaska, Alaska · 931 days ago · 25 km deep · 96 km away
- 2.8210 km SSE of Akutan, Alaska · 929 days ago · 10 km deep · 77 km away
Before
- 3.1218 km SSE of Unalaska, Alaska · 986 days ago · 16 km deep · 28 km away
- 2.7207 km S of Unalaska, Alaska · 989 days ago · 35 km deep · 58 km away
- 2.6203 km SSE of Akutan, Alaska · 1002 days ago · 10 km deep · 81 km away
- 3.2202 km SE of Akutan, Alaska · 1005 days ago · 10 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.6191 km S of Unalaska, Alaska · 1013 days ago · 10 km deep · 71 km away
- 2.9195 km SSE of Akutan, Alaska · 1013 days ago · 10 km deep · 45 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us7000lw05 (also filed as ak024z0funb). Read Sat, Oct 3, 2026, 9:52 PM UTC.