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M 2.1ml

12 km ENE of Ninilchik, Alaska

· 68 km deep · released about 43 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
68 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Kenai Peninsula Borough, 58 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1511 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

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 60.0761, -151.4576. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK 58 km (36 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Kenai Peninsula Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.8 10 km S of Anchor Point, Alaska
  2. 1.5 9 km WNW of Fox River, Alaska
  3. 1.8 20 km SE of Clam Gulch, Alaska
  4. 2.2 12 km E of Clam Gulch, Alaska
  5. 2.7 11 km E of Clam Gulch, Alaska
  6. 1.7 16 km E of Happy Valley, Alaska
  7. 1.7 15 km N of Ninilchik, Alaska
  8. 2.5 5 km WSW of Kasilof, Alaska
  9. 2.3 3 km SW of Ninilchik, Alaska
  10. 2.7 22 km W of Clam Gulch, Alaska
  11. 1.7 5 km WNW of Happy Valley, Alaska
  12. 2.0 17 km ESE of Kasilof, Alaska
  13. 1.8 8 km NE of Ninilchik, Alaska
  14. 1.9 15 km SSE of Soldotna, Alaska
  15. 1.5 15 km ESE of Clam Gulch, 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 5.3 on 2017-05-07 — it released about 63,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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