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M 2.9ml

79 km WNW of Petersville, Alaska

· 8.1 km deep · released about 680 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.9 (ml)
Depth
8.1 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Denali Borough, 146 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1145 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 680 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 22,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 680 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 62.7988, -152.1737. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Denali Borough, AK 146 km (90 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Denali Borough

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 61 km NW of Skwentna, Alaska
  2. 2.0 87 km NW of Skwentna, Alaska
  3. 2.9 48 km SSW of Denali National Park, Alaska
  4. 1.5 88 km NW of Skwentna, Alaska
  5. 2.1 78 km WNW of Petersville, Alaska
  6. 1.8 50 km SW of Denali National Park, Alaska
  7. 1.9 44 km S of Denali National Park, Alaska
  8. 1.9 62 km SW of Denali National Park, Alaska
  9. 1.5 89 km ESE of Nikolai, Alaska
  10. 1.6 68 km WNW of Petersville, Alaska
  11. 1.6 92 km ESE of Nikolai, Alaska
  12. 2.6 90 km ESE of Nikolai, Alaska
  13. 1.5 46 km SSW of Denali National Park, Alaska
  14. 2.6 57 km NW of Skwentna, Alaska
  15. 1.8 58 km NNW of Skwentna, 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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