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M 2.9ml

175 km ESE of Atka, Alaska

· 26 km deep · released about 680 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.9 (ml)
Depth
26 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2491 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 51.7804, -171.7425. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.6 147 km E of Atka, Alaska
  2. 3.6 213 km ESE of Atka, Alaska
  3. 3.2 142 km ESE of Atka, Alaska
  4. 4.1 147 km E of Atka, Alaska
  5. 2.5 192 km ESE of Atka, Alaska
  6. 3.0 191 km E of Atka, Alaska
  7. 2.7 186 km E of Atka, Alaska
  8. 3.0 193 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska
  9. 3.0 194 km ESE of Atka, Alaska
  10. 3.8 183 km ESE of Atka, Alaska
  11. 2.5 147 km ESE of Atka, Alaska
  12. 3.4 206 km ESE of Atka, Alaska
  13. 3.9 214 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  14. 3.7 212 km ESE of Atka, Alaska
  15. 3.6 201 km SW of Nikolski, 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 4.5 on 2016-08-14 — it released about 250 times the energy of this one.

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

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