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M 1.8ml

53 km SE of Halibut Cove, Alaska

· 12 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1144 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 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 59.2505, -150.5584. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 89 km SE of Port Graham, Alaska
  2. 2.4 72 km SE of Halibut Cove, Alaska
  3. 1.8 7 km E of Halibut Cove, Alaska
  4. 2.2 23 km E of Halibut Cove, Alaska
  5. 1.8 44 km ESE of Fox River, Alaska
  6. 1.9 76 km SSE of Halibut Cove, Alaska
  7. 1.8 19 km E of Halibut Cove, Alaska
  8. 1.5 56 km SE of Halibut Cove, Alaska
  9. 1.8 58 km SE of Port Graham, Alaska
  10. 1.7 36 km E of Halibut Cove, Alaska
  11. 1.8 31 km SE of Fox River, Alaska
  12. 1.6 24 km SE of Halibut Cove, Alaska
  13. 1.5 43 km SE of Seldovia, Alaska
  14. 1.6 55 km SE of Fox River, Alaska
  15. 3.3 32 km SE of Fox River, 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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