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ice quake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1ml

50 km NW of Elfin Cove, Alaska

· 0.0 km deep · released about 43 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
0.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, 63 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2329 days ago

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

USGS catalogues this as ice quake, not an earthquake.

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 58.5200, -136.9464. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, AK 63 km (39 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Hoonah-Angoon Census Area
Haines Borough, AK 102 km (63 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Haines Borough
Skagway Municipality, AK 148 km (92 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Skagway Municipality

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 67 km NW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  2. 2.1 63 km NW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  3. 1.8 91 km NW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  4. 1.8 87 km NW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  5. 3.0 45 km WNW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  6. 1.6 84 km SW of Covenant Life, Alaska
  7. 3.4 80 km NW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  8. 1.6 63 km SSW of Covenant Life, Alaska
  9. 3.0 76 km NNW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  10. 1.8 62 km WNW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  11. 1.6 71 km SW of Covenant Life, Alaska
  12. 1.6 Southeastern Alaska
  13. 1.6 34 km WNW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  14. 1.6 67 km WNW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  15. 2.4 60 km WNW of Elfin Cove, 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 4.5 on 2017-01-16 — it released about 4,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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