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M 1.9ml

44 km ENE of Healy, Alaska

· 103 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
103 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Denali Borough, 100 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1138 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 64.0400, -148.1501. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Denali Borough, AK 100 km (62 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Denali Borough
Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK 106 km (66 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Fairbanks North Star Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 28 km E of Clear, Alaska, Alaska
  2. 1.9 35 km E of Clear, Alaska, Alaska
  3. 2.2 16 km ENE of McKinley Park, Alaska
  4. 1.8 15 km E of Healy, Alaska
  5. 2.2 27 km ENE of McKinley Park, Alaska
  6. 1.9 58 km SW of Salcha, Alaska
  7. 1.6 24 km E of McKinley Park, Alaska
  8. 1.8 35 km ENE of Healy, Alaska
  9. 3.2 42 km E of Clear, Alaska, Alaska
  10. 2.2 43 km SSW of South Van Horn, Alaska
  11. 2.0 24 km E of McKinley Park, Alaska
  12. 2.8 24 km ENE of McKinley Park, Alaska
  13. 2.6 41 km SSW of South Van Horn, Alaska
  14. 1.5 60 km E of McKinley Park, Alaska
  15. 1.5 17 km ESE of Healy, 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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