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M 1.7ml

47 km NNW of Petersville, Alaska

· 105 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Denali Borough 101 kmMatanuska-Susitna Borough 106 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
105 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Denali Borough, 101 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2305 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 62.8992, -151.0385. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Denali Borough, AK 101 km (63 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Denali Borough
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK 106 km (66 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Matanuska-Susitna Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 37 km NNW of Petersville, Alaska
  2. 2.6 51 km NNW of Petersville, Alaska
  3. 2.4 55 km SSE of Denali National Park, Alaska
  4. 1.9 20 km WNW of Petersville, Alaska
  5. 1.8 Central Alaska
  6. 1.8 59 km NNW of Petersville, Alaska
  7. 1.5 54 km S of Denali National Park, Alaska
  8. 1.5 55 km N of Petersville, Alaska
  9. 1.6 34 km NNE of Petersville, Alaska
  10. 1.5 52 km SSE of Denali National Park, Alaska
  11. 2.2 33 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska
  12. 2.0 47 km NNW of Petersville, Alaska
  13. 2.0 67 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska
  14. 1.5 52 km NNW of Petersville, Alaska
  15. 1.6 47 km SE of Denali National Park, 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 2016-05-15 — it released about 250,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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