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M 2.6ml

52 km SSE of Glacier View, Alaska

· 18 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.6 (ml)
Depth
18 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity I
Nearest
Anchorage Municipality, 101 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1147 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 61.3495, -147.4335. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Anchorage Municipality, AK 101 km (63 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Anchorage Municipality
Chugach Census Area, AK 117 km (72 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Chugach Census Area
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK 149 km (93 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Matanuska-Susitna Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 19 km SW of Glacier View, Alaska
  2. 1.5 62 km S of Glacier View, Alaska
  3. 1.5 50 km SSE of Glacier View, Alaska
  4. 2.1 18 km ESE of Glacier View, Alaska
  5. 1.5 33 km SSE of Glacier View, Alaska
  6. 1.5 36 km NW of Valdez, Alaska
  7. 2.5 32 km NW of Tatitlek, Alaska
  8. 1.5 26 km SSE of Eureka Roadhouse, Alaska
  9. 1.6 37 km WNW of Tatitlek, Alaska
  10. 1.5 49 km SSE of Glacier View, Alaska
  11. 1.6 14 km SSW of Glacier View, Alaska
  12. 2.8 33 km SSE of Eureka Roadhouse, Alaska
  13. 1.6 50 km W of Tatitlek, Alaska
  14. 2.0 40 km NW of Valdez, Alaska
  15. 1.5 66 km S of Glacier View, 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.

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