M2.1 earthquake 237 km W of Adak, Alaska
A magnitude 2.1 earthquake struck 237 km W of Adak, Alaska on Tue, Jan 7, 2025, 4:41 PM HAST (02:41 UTC), 24 km (15 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M4.1 Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 2.1 (ML, local (Richter)), micro
- Magnitude from
- AV
- Local time
- UTC
- 2025-01-08 02:41:42 UTC
- Depth
- 24.1 km (15.0 mi), shallow
- Epicenter
- 51.758° N, 179.932° E
- 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 4.6 km horizontally, 2.6 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.15
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 342°, poorly surrounded by stations
- Stations used
- 4
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 108 in the 60 days after this one and 31 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 2.9275 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 631 days ago · 10 km deep · 49 km away
- 1.7271 km W of Adak, Alaska · 631 days ago · 8 km deep · 41 km away
- 2.7175 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 630 days ago · 14 km deep · 84 km away
- 2.6204 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 629 days ago · 16 km deep · 66 km away
- 2.8179 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 629 days ago · 68 km deep · 70 km away
- 2.9203 km W of Adak, Alaska · 629 days ago · 140 km deep · 39 km away
- 2.1283 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 629 days ago · 35 km deep · 90 km away
- 2.0224 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 629 days ago · 51 km deep · 39 km away
- 2.3195 km W of Adak, Alaska · 628 days ago · 81 km deep · 42 km away
- 2.1257 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 628 days ago · 55 km deep · 40 km away
- 2.6Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 628 days ago · 49 km deep · 77 km away
- 2.7212 km W of Adak, Alaska · 628 days ago · 121 km deep · 27 km away
- 2.1260 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 626 days ago · 50 km deep · 48 km away
- 2.0Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 625 days ago · 20 km deep · 86 km away
- 2.0188 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 625 days ago · 22 km deep · 78 km away
- 3.8263 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 624 days ago · 27 km deep · 70 km away
- 2.3Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 622 days ago · 24 km deep · 97 km away
- 2.6284 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 621 days ago · 55 km deep · 57 km away
- 2.1177 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 621 days ago · 24 km deep · 100 km away
- 2.4225 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 620 days ago · 56 km deep · 57 km away
- 2.1275 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 619 days ago · 23 km deep · 64 km away
- 2.8Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 619 days ago · 24 km deep · 96 km away
- 2.7Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 619 days ago · 121 km deep · 90 km away
- 2.2239 km W of Adak, Alaska · 619 days ago · 23 km deep · 3 km away
- 3.3210 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 617 days ago · 35 km deep · 72 km away
- 2.0268 km W of Adak, Alaska · 617 days ago · 9 km deep · 39 km away
- 3.1255 km W of Adak, Alaska · 616 days ago · 93 km deep · 33 km away
- 1.9264 km W of Adak, Alaska · 615 days ago · 9 km deep · 29 km away
- 2.6213 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 614 days ago · 35 km deep · 82 km away
- 3.4145 km W of Adak, Alaska · 613 days ago · 19 km deep · 93 km away
- 2.2Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 612 days ago · 17 km deep · 99 km away
- 2.3Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 612 days ago · 70 km deep · 86 km away
- 3.3256 km W of Adak, Alaska · 612 days ago · 115 km deep · 19 km away
- 2.9292 km W of Adak, Alaska · 612 days ago · 71 km deep · 56 km away
- 1.7Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 612 days ago · 13 km deep · 80 km away
- 2.1Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 612 days ago · 95 km deep · 93 km away
- 2.2141 km W of Adak, Alaska · 611 days ago · 13 km deep · 96 km away
- 3.2204 km W of Adak, Alaska · 611 days ago · 172 km deep · 57 km away
- 2.9278 km W of Adak, Alaska · 608 days ago · 105 km deep · 42 km away
- 3.0166 km W of Adak, Alaska · 606 days ago · 193 km deep · 81 km away
- 2.6242 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 606 days ago · 35 km deep · 40 km away
- 2.1264 km W of Adak, Alaska · 606 days ago · 23 km deep · 29 km away
- 2.8241 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 606 days ago · 35 km deep · 56 km away
- 2.1261 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 605 days ago · 37 km deep · 39 km away
- 2.2212 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 605 days ago · 16 km deep · 68 km away
- 2.2Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 605 days ago · 54 km deep · 80 km away
- 3.1246 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 605 days ago · 59 km deep · 40 km away
- 2.3293 km W of Adak, Alaska · 604 days ago · 59 km deep · 59 km away
- 3.7184 km WNW of Adak, Alaska · 604 days ago · 220 km deep · 84 km away
- 1.9283 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 604 days ago · 31 km deep · 72 km away
- 2.6Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 604 days ago · 104 km deep · 97 km away
- 3.0Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 603 days ago · 51 km deep · 86 km away
- 1.9140 km W of Adak, Alaska · 600 days ago · 11 km deep · 98 km away
- 2.9Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 597 days ago · 67 km deep · 75 km away
- 2.0Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 596 days ago · 7 km deep · 96 km away
- 3.6233 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 595 days ago · 19 km deep · 52 km away
- 1.9194 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 595 days ago · 52 km deep · 54 km away
- 1.8Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 595 days ago · 13 km deep · 79 km away
- 1.8269 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 595 days ago · 13 km deep · 67 km away
- 3.0259 km W of Adak, Alaska · 594 days ago · 184 km deep · 46 km away
The first 60 of 108.
Before
- 2.7213 km W of Adak, Alaska · 633 days ago · 117 km deep · 24 km away
- 3.2281 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 634 days ago · 35 km deep · 79 km away
- 3.2269 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 635 days ago · 10 km deep · 83 km away
- 3.1277 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 635 days ago · 35 km deep · 81 km away
- 2.8215 km W of Adak, Alaska · 635 days ago · 93 km deep · 22 km away
- 3.0257 km W of Adak, Alaska · 635 days ago · 99 km deep · 20 km away
- 1.9297 km W of Adak, Alaska · 638 days ago · 7 km deep · 60 km away
- 2.7264 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 639 days ago · 69 km deep · 40 km away
- 2.2180 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 640 days ago · 10 km deep · 66 km away
- 3.9Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 640 days ago · 170 km deep · 94 km away
- 2.7249 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 640 days ago · 31 km deep · 49 km away
- 2.2208 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 641 days ago · 13 km deep · 63 km away
- 2.1222 km W of Adak, Alaska · 642 days ago · 13 km deep · 18 km away
- 2.5192 km W of Adak, Alaska · 642 days ago · 72 km deep · 49 km away
- 3.1Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 647 days ago · 44 km deep · 88 km away
- 4.1Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 647 days ago · 47 km deep · 89 km away
- 2.4296 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 648 days ago · 12 km deep · 88 km away
- 2.2206 km W of Adak, Alaska · 649 days ago · 84 km deep · 31 km away
- 2.7Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 649 days ago · 102 km deep · 98 km away
- 3.0190 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 649 days ago · 35 km deep · 93 km away
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From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event av93448041. Read Fri, Oct 2, 2026, 1:14 AM UTC.