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M 2.3ml

38 km SW of Cooper Landing, Alaska

· 36 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kenai Peninsula Borough 117 kmAnchorage Municipality 119 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (ml)
Depth
36 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kenai Peninsula Borough, 117 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2385 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 85 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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 60.2044, -150.2220. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK 117 km (73 mi) E of here earthquakes near Kenai Peninsula Borough
Anchorage Municipality, AK 119 km (74 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Anchorage Municipality

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 29 km W of Lowell Point, Alaska
  2. 2.5 13 km NNW of Cooper Landing, Alaska
  3. 2.1 22 km SW of Cooper Landing, Alaska
  4. 1.6 25 km SW of Cooper Landing, Alaska
  5. 1.7 30 km SE of Funny River, Alaska
  6. 2.3 40 km ENE of Fox River, Alaska
  7. 1.9 36 km SSW of Cooper Landing, Alaska
  8. 1.9 35 km ESE of Fox River, Alaska
  9. 1.6 23 km ENE of Sterling, Alaska
  10. 2.0 14 km SSE of Funny River, Alaska
  11. 1.9 42 km SSE of Funny River, Alaska
  12. 1.6 22 km WNW of Cooper Landing, Alaska
  13. 3.0 11 km ENE of Sterling, AK
  14. 1.6 20 km WNW of Cooper Landing, Alaska
  15. 1.5 12 km NW of Cooper Landing, 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.

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