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M 1.6ml

17 km SSW of Point Possession, Alaska

· 55 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kenai Peninsula Borough 94 kmAnchorage Municipality 94 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
55 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kenai Peninsula Borough, 94 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2491 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 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 60.7875, -150.8336. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK 94 km (58 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Kenai Peninsula Borough
Anchorage Municipality, AK 94 km (58 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Anchorage Municipality

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 2 km N of Kenai, Alaska
  2. 1.6 6 km NE of Sterling, Alaska
  3. 2.0 22 km ESE of Funny River, Alaska
  4. 2.3 11 km SE of Tyonek, Alaska
  5. 1.5 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
  6. 2.5 2 km SSW of Funny River, Alaska
  7. 2.0 26 km WSW of Anchorage, Alaska
  8. 1.6 26 km NE of Point Possession, Alaska
  9. 2.1 24 km WSW of Anchorage, Alaska
  10. 1.5 5 km W of Funny River, Alaska
  11. 2.4 20 km S of Tyonek, Alaska
  12. 1.5 15 km SSW of Tyonek, Alaska
  13. 1.5 7 km SSE of Soldotna, Alaska
  14. 1.6 8 km ESE of Funny River, Alaska
  15. 1.6 16 km SSE 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.4 on 2017-11-17 — it released about 16,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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