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M 1.8ml

11 km NNW of Sterling, Alaska

· 27 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kenai Peninsula Borough 88 kmAnchorage Municipality 102 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
27 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kenai Peninsula Borough, 88 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2536 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 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 60.6401, -150.8124. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK 88 km (55 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Kenai Peninsula Borough
Anchorage Municipality, AK 102 km (63 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Anchorage Municipality

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 13 km ENE of Sterling, Alaska
  2. 1.7 2 km NNW of Sterling, Alaska
  3. 1.6 16 km E of Clam Gulch, Alaska
  4. 1.6 12 km S of Funny River, Alaska
  5. 1.5 17 km ESE of Kasilof, Alaska
  6. 1.5 14 km S of Point Possession, Alaska
  7. 3.1 5 km NNE of Kalifornsky, Alaska
  8. 1.7 5 km S of Soldotna, Alaska
  9. 1.5 8 km N of Point Possession, AK
  10. 2.3 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
  11. 1.6 4 km SW of Tyonek, Alaska
  12. 1.9 7 km ENE of Ridgeway, Alaska
  13. 1.6 17 km SE of Kasilof, Alaska
  14. 1.6 15 km SSW of Point Possession, Alaska
  15. 1.5 7 km ESE of Point Possession, 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 4.7 on 2019-07-03 — it released about 22,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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