M2.6 earthquake 261 km W of Adak, Alaska

A magnitude 2.6 earthquake struck 261 km W of Adak, Alaska on Fri, Dec 19, 2025, 4:27 PM GMT+12 (04:27 UTC), 92 km (57 mi) below the surface.

A larger quake followed: M4.9 Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. This one was a foreshock.

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Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.

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 · ±0.085 · 18 stations
2.6	ML, local (Richter)	Alaska Earthquake Center	Reviewed · ±0.4 · 13 stations

No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.

Reviewed by a seismologist.

Within 100 km, magnitude 1.5 and up: 37 in the 60 days after this one and 39 in the 30 days before it.

From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us6000s91x (also filed as ak2025ywmmem). Read Fri, Oct 2, 2026, 7:08 AM UTC.