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M 2.1ml

234 km WSW of Adak, Alaska

· 56 km deep · released about 43 lb of TNT

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

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2598 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 51.3664, -179.9132. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.4 245 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  2. 3.0 230 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  3. 2.2 205 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  4. 2.3 196 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  5. 2.4 240 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  6. 2.0 204 km W of Adak, Alaska
  7. 1.9 205 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  8. 2.5 212 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  9. 4.0 216 km W of Adak, Alaska
  10. 3.5 222 km W of Adak, Alaska
  11. 2.1 207 km W of Adak, Alaska
  12. 2.7 226 km W of Adak, Alaska
  13. 2.7 227 km W of Adak, Alaska
  14. 2.0 Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
  15. 2.6 219 km WSW of Adak, 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 5.2 on 2016-11-23 — it released about 45,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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