M5.1 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands

GEOFON GFZ reports M5.1 near Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, with a 10.0 km catalog depth.

Published 2026-09-04T14:13:22.312Z

The event began at Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:11:22 GMT. GEOFON GFZ reports magnitude 5.1, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates 52.265, -169.500.

The catalog location label is Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a shallow event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 2.92e+12 joules, or about 697 tons of TNT equivalent; that calculation describes source energy, not local damage.

The current catalog entry does not include a public felt-report count. No separate intensity or catalog-significance detail is available from this provider record. No official casualty or damage statement is attached to the normalized event evidence.

GEOFON GFZ has not supplied a review status in the normalized record. No station-count, phase-count, residual, gap, or uncertainty fields were supplied in the normalized record. No alternate network solution is attached to this record.

The provider record does not carry a tsunami flag at publication time. Magnitude, depth, and location can change as monitoring networks add observations and review the solution.