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M 1.9ml

41 km WSW of Haines, Alaska

· 0.4 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Haines Borough 29 kmSkagway Municipality 71 kmHoonah-Angoon Census Area 72 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
0.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Haines Borough, 29 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1141 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 21 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 45× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 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 59.0395, -136.0702. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Haines Borough, AK 29 km (18 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Haines Borough
Skagway Municipality, AK 71 km (44 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Skagway Municipality
Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, AK 72 km (44 mi) N of here earthquakes near Hoonah-Angoon Census Area
Juneau City and Borough, AK 132 km (82 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Juneau City and Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 40 km S of Covenant Life, Alaska
  2. 1.6 63 km SSW of Covenant Life, Alaska
  3. 1.7 27 km WSW of Covenant Life, Alaska
  4. 1.7 34 km WSW of Covenant Life, Alaska
  5. 1.7 34 km S of Covenant Life, Alaska
  6. 2.0 56 km SW of Covenant Life, Alaska
  7. 1.8 36 km SSW of Klukwan, Alaska
  8. 1.5 64 km NW of Gustavus, Alaska
  9. 1.8 2 km WNW of Lutak, Alaska
  10. 1.6 47 km SSW of Covenant Life, Alaska
  11. 1.7 38 km NNW of Gustavus, Alaska
  12. 1.9 55 km NW of Gustavus, Alaska
  13. 1.8 35 km SW of Mud Bay, Alaska
  14. 2.6 33 km SW of Covenant Life, Alaska
  15. 2.0 41 km WSW of Mud Bay, 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 4.0 on 2017-08-18 — it released about 1,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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