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M 2.1ml

165 km S of False Pass, Alaska

· 27 km deep · released about 43 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
27 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2623 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 43 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 22× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 43 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 53.3714, -163.5809. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.5 164 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska
  2. 1.9 162 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska
  3. 2.0 178 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  4. 2.0 162 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska
  5. 2.0 167 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska
  6. 3.4 153 km S of False Pass, Alaska
  7. 3.2 161 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska
  8. 3.2 163 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska
  9. 3.3 Unimak Island region, Alaska
  10. 5.7 156 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska
  11. 2.1 122 km S of False Pass, Alaska
  12. 3.0 121 km S of False Pass, Alaska
  13. 1.9 155 km S of False Pass, Alaska
  14. 1.8 159 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  15. 2.6 169 km S of False Pass, 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 5.9 on 2016-10-27 — it released about 500,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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