M3.0 Earthquake near Nome, United States — 15 June 2026, 21:49 UTC

Minor earthquakes in this range are felt by people close to the epicentre as a brief jolt or rattle, but they very rarely cause any damage.

A magnitude 3.0 earthquake radiates roughly 477 kg of TNT equivalent in seismic energy.

The USGS assigns this earthquake a significance score of 138, which is below the USGS threshold of more than 600 for its significant-earthquake list. The ranking combines magnitude with available Did You Feel It responses and PAGER alert level; it is not a direct measurement of damage.

That is about 10:47 local solar time at the epicentre, during the morning.

This event was deeper than 99% of the 161,343 earthquakes recorded in the United States in our catalogue and stronger than 96% of them.

The epicentre was located at 64.8440, -165.4360 — 38 km north of Nome. The closest other recorded event was a magnitude 3.4 earthquake 35 km south-southeast of here on 21 March 2026.

The nearest other settlements in our records are Teller (42 km north-northeast), Brevig Mission (77 km northwest), White Mountain (92 km east-southeast) and Shishmaref (137 km north-northwest).

At 126 km this was an intermediate-depth earthquake. Energy from events at this depth spreads out before it reaches the surface, which usually means weaker shaking near the epicentre than a shallow quake of the same magnitude, but shaking felt across a wider area.

This catalogue does not ingest eyewitness responses, so it cannot confirm where this earthquake was felt. Based on magnitude alone, an event this size may be noticed locally, especially close to the epicentre. Its intermediate depth normally reduces peak shaking near the epicentre compared with a shallow event of the same magnitude.

The USGS record does not carry a link to NOAA tsunami information. That field is not an all-clear and does not state whether a tsunami occurred. In this case, a damaging tsunami would be less likely because at M3.0 it falls below the magnitude 6.5 threshold that generally applies before a submarine earthquake displaces enough water to generate a damaging tsunami; its 126 km focal depth is too great to deform the sea floor significantly; it occurred inland rather than beneath the sea floor. For an active coastal alert, use tsunami.gov or your local warning authority.

1 further earthquakes have been recorded within about 150 km of the epicentre in the seven days after this event, the largest of them magnitude 3.0.

2 earthquakes of magnitude 4 or above have been logged within roughly 200 km of this epicentre in our catalogue. The strongest was a magnitude 4.0 event near Port Clarence on 10 September 2026. This M3.0 event released about 32 times less energy than that event.

1 earthquakes have been recorded within 100 km of this epicentre in the past year, 0 of them in the past 30 days.

This earthquake is part of the June 2026 worldwide record, and of earthquakes in the United States during June 2026. Browse the full monthly archive to compare periods.