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M 1.5ml

14 km NW of Willow, Alaska

· 15 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Matanuska-Susitna Borough 59 kmAnchorage Municipality 89 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, 59 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1152 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 lb of TNT

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre 61.8469, -150.2081. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK 59 km (37 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Matanuska-Susitna Borough
Anchorage Municipality, AK 89 km (56 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Anchorage Municipality

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

55 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 2.0 8 km SE of Susitna North, Alaska
  2. 2.6 21 km WSW of Susitna North, Alaska
  3. 1.6 2 km NNE of Willow, Alaska
  4. 1.9 21 km SW of Susitna North, Alaska
  5. 1.9 4 km NNW of Big Lake, Alaska
  6. 2.3 16 km W of Willow, Alaska
  7. 1.5 10 km SW of Big Lake, Alaska
  8. 1.6 4 km NE of Susitna, Alaska
  9. 2.2 20 km W of Susitna North, Alaska
  10. 1.5 7 km NE of Susitna, Alaska
  11. 2.5 8 km N of Big Lake, Alaska
  12. 2.7 5 km NE of Big Lake, Alaska
  13. 1.5 18 km NNE of Susitna, Alaska
  14. 1.5 7 km WSW of Houston, Alaska
  15. 3.0 5 km S of Big Lake, Alaska

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.5 on 2016-01-18 — it released about 32,000 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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