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Earthquakes near Utqiaġvik

Reading the latest USGS reports for the ground near Utqiaġvik…

Live sections load from the USGS feed. If the feed does not answer, this page says so — it never fills the gap with old numbers.

Recorded USGS earthquakes from the last 7 days, magnitude 2.5 and larger, within 250 km of Utqiaġvik. The dashed pale circle is a true 250 km radius around Utqiaġvik; amber rings are the recorded epicenters, sized by magnitude; small cream squares are the other towns, and the ringed cream marker is Utqiaġvik. If the USGS feed does not answer, the coastline, ring, and marker still show — and no events are plotted.

Most felt near Utqiaġvik — last 7 days, within 250 km

Recent near Utqiaġvik — last 7 days, M1.0 and larger within 250 km, newest first

Every event links to its USGS event page, the authority for that earthquake. Distances are measured from Utqiaġvik, not copied from the feed's place names.

The biggest on record near Utqiaġvik — USGS catalog, as recorded

The five largest earthquakes recorded within 200 km of Utqiaġvik since 1900, from USGS catalog pulls made November 8, 2026. Pre-instrumental magnitudes are estimates, and catalog completeness varies by era — the fine print is on the about page.

How often does the ground move here?

0 earthquakes of M4.0 or larger were recorded within 200 km in the last 10 years — no recorded M4-or-larger events at all. Since 1900 the catalog holds 1 M4-or-larger events within the same radius.

Utqiaġvik's recorded history is a single M4.1 within 200 km — the thinnest page on this site, and an honest one: the North Slope is both genuinely quiet and the least instrumented corner of Alaska, so the catalog's silence here is part geology, part missing microphones.

Arctic Alaska — why it shakes

The Arctic Slope and Brooks Range sit far from the plate boundary, and their earthquakes are the state's sparsest — intraplate adjustments in old, cold crust, plus a known active zone near the Mackenzie Delta just across the Canadian border. With few seismometers and fewer people, the catalog here is thin by construction: events under about M4.5 have often gone unrecorded, especially before the modern network.

New to the numbers? What magnitude means explains the scale in plain words — including why a whole step is about 32 times the energy, and why what people feel is not the same as damage.

Utqiaġvik on the sister sites

Daylight in Utqiaġvik — sunrise, sunset, and day length.

Aurora over Utqiaġvik — tonight's northern lights outlook.

Barrow Offshore — the nearest tide station in the fleet's inventory, 8 km from Utqiaġvik.