Significant 5.3 quake hits near Unalaska, Aleutians West, Alaska, USA

Just 9 minutes ago, a 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck near Unalaska, Aleutians West, Alaska, USA. The tremor was recorded after midnight on Saturday, April 25th, 2026, at 12:05 am local time, at a moderately shallow depth of 26 miles below the surface.
The event was filed by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), the first seismological agency to report it.
Our monitoring service identified a second report from the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake which listed the quake at magnitude 5.3 as well. A third agency, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), reported the same quake at magnitude 5.3.
Based on the preliminary seismic data, the quake should not have caused any significant damage, but was probably felt by many people as light vibration in the area of the epicenter.
Weak shaking might have been felt in Unalaska (pop. 4,500) located 39 miles from the epicenter, Dutch Harbor (pop. 4,400) 40 miles away, and Akutan (pop. 1000) 48 miles away.
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Earthquake data:
Date & time: Apr 25, 2026 12:05 am (GMT -8) local time (25 Apr 2026 08:05 GMT)
Magnitude: 5.4
Depth: 35.00 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude: 53.59°N / 164.91°W (Aleutians West, Alaska, United States)
Primary data source: USGS
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