28 km NW of Beluga, Alaska

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

At this magnitude and depth it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 21 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710,000× the energy of this one
2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500,000× the energy of this one
3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 45× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 4.2 on 2018-07-06 — about 2,800 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 18 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

1. 6.8 Southern Alaska · 32 km SSE of this epicentre Apr 27, 1933
2. 6.8 4 km NE of Beluga, Alaska · 28 km SE of this epicentre Oct 23, 1936
3. 6.0 Southern Alaska · 19 km SW of this epicentre Jun 13, 1933
4. 5.8 17 km NW of Beluga, Alaska · 12 km SSE of this epicentre Jun 12, 1933
5. 5.8 27 km N of Beluga, Alaska · 21 km ENE of this epicentre Jun 19, 1933

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 61.3396, -151.4085. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 1.6 13 km SSW of Tyonek, Alaska 05:30 UTC
2. 2.0 31 km WNW of Susitna, Alaska 17:14 UTC
3. 2.5 26 km WNW of Susitna, Alaska 18:26 UTC
4. 2.1 29 km SSE of Skwentna, Alaska 08:13 UTC
5. 2.3 50 km WNW of Beluga, Alaska 04:14 UTC
6. 1.6 58 km SSW of Skwentna, Alaska 20:12 UTC
7. 1.6 49 km NW of Beluga, Alaska 21:37 UTC
8. 1.9 42 km W of Susitna, Alaska 17:03 UTC
9. 1.7 5 km WSW of Beluga, Alaska 13:02 UTC
10. 2.3 5 km NW of Tyonek, Alaska 07:06 UTC
11. 1.6 31 km WNW of Susitna, Alaska 03:14 UTC
12. 2.9 32 km WSW of Susitna, Alaska 00:16 UTC
13. 1.8 31 km SSE of Skwentna, Alaska 12:18 UTC
14. 2.1 36 km SSW of Skwentna, Alaska 04:20 UTC
15. 1.8 31 km W of Tyonek, Alaska 22:18 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 06:48 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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