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M 2.3ml

82 km SW of Karluk, Alaska

· 67 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (ml)
Depth
67 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kodiak Island Borough, 117 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1143 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 85 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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 57.1164, -155.5434. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kodiak Island Borough, AK 117 km (73 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Kodiak Island Borough
Lake and Peninsula Borough, AK 122 km (76 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lake and Peninsula Borough

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. 1.7 66 km WSW of Karluk, Alaska
  2. 2.1 83 km W of Karluk, Alaska
  3. 2.3 64 km W of Akhiok, Alaska
  4. 2.2 64 km W of Akhiok, Alaska
  5. 3.4 92 km WSW of Karluk, Alaska
  6. 1.9 97 km W of Akhiok, Alaska
  7. 2.0 62 km WSW of Akhiok, Alaska
  8. 1.6 59 km WNW of Akhiok, Alaska
  9. 2.1 84 km WSW of Akhiok, Alaska
  10. 1.9 48 km SW of Karluk, Alaska
  11. 1.6 63 km W of Karluk, Alaska
  12. 1.6 91 km W of Akhiok, Alaska
  13. 4.2 72 km WSW of Karluk, Alaska
  14. 1.8 92 km WSW of Akhiok, Alaska
  15. 1.5 50 km W of Karluk, 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 4.4 on 2018-02-19 — it released about 1,400 times the energy of this one.

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

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