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M 3.1ml

Central Alaska

· 31 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.1 (ml)
Depth
31 km below the surface
Felt
13 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Fairbanks North Star Borough, 71 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1138 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 13 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× more

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 64.6286, -147.9883. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK 71 km (44 mi) W of here earthquakes near Fairbanks North Star Borough
Denali Borough, AK 144 km (90 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Denali Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.0 30 km SSW of Ester, Alaska
  2. 1.9 58 km SW of Salcha, Alaska
  3. 1.5 27 km WSW of Ester, Alaska
  4. 3.2 42 km E of Clear, Alaska, Alaska
  5. 1.6 4 km WSW of College, Alaska
  6. 1.6 19 km SSW of Badger, Alaska
  7. 2.1 13 km SSW of Badger, Alaska
  8. 2.2 43 km SSW of South Van Horn, Alaska
  9. 2.6 41 km SSW of South Van Horn, Alaska
  10. 1.8 Central Alaska
  11. 1.9 15 km S of South Van Horn, Alaska
  12. 1.6 6 km NNW of Farmers Loop, Alaska
  13. 2.4 4 km W of College, Alaska
  14. 2.3 6 km NW of Farmers Loop, Alaska
  15. 1.5 7 km NE of Fox, 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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