September 2, 1907 Earthquake: Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States on September 2, 1907 at 16:01 UTC.
Map
Where it struck, with the other significant earthquakes within 200 km. Circles are sized and colored by magnitude; select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Date
- September 2, 1907
- Time
- 16:01 UTC
- Place
- Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States
- Magnitude
- 7.8 (Ms)
- Magnitude scales
- Ms 7.8 · mb 7.3
- Tsunami
- None recorded
- Epicenter
- 52.590° N, 169.730° W
- Country
- United States
- Region
- North America and Hawaii
Ms: surface-wave magnitude. mb: body-wave (P-wave) magnitude. NCEI’s headline magnitude is the best of these for the earthquake.
The toll
The record gives no deaths, injuries or damage for this earthquake.
Sources NCEI cites
The publications NCEI lists for this record. The numbers match the “reference #” notes in its account above.
- #542 Stover, Carl W., and Jerry L. Coffman (1993). Seismicity of the United States, 1568-1989 (Revised), U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1527, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 418 p.
- #130 Gutenberg, B. and C.F. Richter (1965). Seismicity of the earth and associated phenomena. Princeton University Press, 1954 (second edition); Hafner Publishing Company, New York and London (facsimile edition), 310 p.
- #88 Duda, Seweryn J. (1965). Secular seismic energy release in the circum-Pacific belt. Tectonophysics, vol. 2, no. 5, p. 409-452. DOI:10.1016/0040-1951(65)90035-1
- #1002 Lomnitz, Cinna (1974). Development in Geotectonics #5, Global Tectonics and Earthquake Risk, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1974.
Other significant earthquakes nearby
Within 200 km, the deadliest first.
- July 27, 2015, Alaska, United States
- April 18, 1916, Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States
- December 21, 1962, Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States
- August 23, 1872, Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States
- September 2, 2011, Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States
- January 1, 1902, Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States
- December 31, 1901, Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States
- July 2, 1965, Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States
- June 24, 2011, Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States
- March 7, 1929, Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, United States
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Sources
Significant earthquakes from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-10-01. NCEI earthquake 2816.