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M 2.0ml

131 km E of Chignik, Alaska

· 65 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
65 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2313 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 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 56.1499, -156.3016. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 130 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  2. 4.2 130 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  3. 1.8 160 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  4. 2.0 164 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  5. 3.3 149 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  6. 2.0 112 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  7. 2.0 135 km SW of Akhiok, Alaska
  8. 3.1 131 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  9. 2.2 122 km E of Chignik, Alaska
  10. 1.9 118 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  11. 2.2 114 km E of Chignik, Alaska
  12. 2.5 110 km E of Chignik, Alaska
  13. 3.4 105 km ENE of Chignik, Alaska
  14. 2.6 132 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  15. 2.4 139 km E of Chignik, 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 2017-03-28 — it released about 5,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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