During the month of August 2022, the Alaska Earthquake Center reported 3643 earthquakes within the state. The largest earthquake was magnitude 5.3 that occurred on August 1, 00:36:39 (UTC), 52 miles S of Akutan.

All earthquakes of magnitude greater than 4.0 were recorded along the subduction zone except of a M4.2 event in Chukchi peninsula (Russia). We continue to monitor seismic activity within  Anchorage, offshore Kodiak, Simeonof-Chignik,  aftershock zones as well as crustal seismic activity in Brooks Range, Seward Peninsula and  Bering Strait. About 150 ice quakes were located in August, and about half of them occurred in Mt. Ogden in south-eastern Alaska. Others were recorded in Prince William Sound, Icy Bay and Yakutat Bay.  15 earthquakes were reported as felt.