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M 2.6ml

Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

· 39 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.6 (ml)
Depth
39 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kenai Peninsula Borough, 97 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1137 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 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 60.1059, -150.6362. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK 97 km (61 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Kenai Peninsula Borough
Anchorage Municipality, AK 140 km (87 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Anchorage Municipality

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. 1.6 21 km SE of Fox River, Alaska
  2. 2.0 6 km WNW of Fox River, Alaska
  3. 1.8 12 km SSE of Fox River, Alaska
  4. 1.6 6 km N of Fox River, Alaska
  5. 1.7 2 km ENE of Funny River, Alaska
  6. 1.9 19 km SE of Kasilof, Alaska
  7. 2.5 15 km SSE of Fox River, Alaska
  8. 1.7 15 km ESE of Kasilof, Alaska
  9. 1.5 19 km S of Funny River, Alaska
  10. 2.0 11 km SE of Funny River, Alaska
  11. 1.7 36 km SW of Cooper Landing, Alaska
  12. 2.8 18 km SE of Kasilof, Alaska
  13. 1.9 23 km SE of Clam Gulch, Alaska
  14. 2.1 22 km ESE of Kasilof, Alaska
  15. 1.9 29 km SE of Funny River, 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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