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M 2.1ml

48 km WSW of Unalaska, Alaska

· 13 km deep · released about 43 lb of TNT

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

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2585 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 53.6930, -167.1986. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 62 km SW of Unalaska, Alaska
  2. 1.7 69 km SW of Unalaska, Alaska
  3. 1.7 61 km SW of Unalaska, Alaska
  4. 1.9 51 km SW of Unalaska, Alaska
  5. 2.1 53 km SW of Unalaska, Alaska
  6. 2.0 63 km WSW of Unalaska, Alaska
  7. 1.7 54 km SW of Unalaska, Alaska
  8. 2.5 71 km SW of Unalaska, Alaska
  9. 1.8 74 km WSW of Unalaska, Alaska
  10. 1.8 74 km SW of Unalaska, Alaska
  11. 2.5 73 km WSW of Unalaska, Alaska
  12. 2.6 39 km W of Dutch Harbor, Alaska
  13. 2.2 52 km SW of Unalaska, Alaska
  14. 1.6 Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
  15. 1.8 61 km SW of Unalaska, 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 4.1 on 2017-10-09 — it released about 1,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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