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M 1.5ml

2 km N of Sterling, Alaska

· 46 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kenai Peninsula Borough 88 kmAnchorage Municipality 105 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
46 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kenai Peninsula Borough, 88 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1145 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 60.5623, -150.7724. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK 88 km (54 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Kenai Peninsula Borough
Anchorage Municipality, AK 105 km (66 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Anchorage Municipality

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 18 km E of Point Possession, Alaska
  2. 1.7 18 km E of Funny River, Alaska
  3. 1.5 14 km SSW of Tyonek, Alaska
  4. 1.5 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
  5. 2.1 5 km ENE of Kenai, Alaska
  6. 1.8 14 km SW of Point Possession, Alaska
  7. 1.6 15 km SW of Point Possession, Alaska
  8. 1.7 14 km S of Point Possession, Alaska
  9. 1.7 12 km SE of Point Possession, Alaska
  10. 1.6 30 km ESE of Kasilof, Alaska
  11. 1.7 27 km SSE of Funny River, Alaska
  12. 1.5 6 km E of Funny River, Alaska
  13. 1.5 10 km ESE of Nikiski, Alaska
  14. 1.6 15 km SSW of Point Possession, Alaska
  15. 2.3 6 km WSW of Point Possession, 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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