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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9ml

120 km E of McCarthy, Alaska

· 2.8 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
2.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2292 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 21 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 45× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 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 61.4471, -140.6606. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 125 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  2. 1.6 119 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  3. 1.5 128 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  4. 1.8 Southern Alaska
  5. 1.6 102 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  6. 1.6 118 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  7. 1.8 108 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  8. 2.0 98 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  9. 1.6 94 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  10. 2.1 147 km SSE of Alcan Border, Alaska
  11. 1.5 118 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  12. 3.1 136 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  13. 1.8 148 km WNW of Haines Junction, Canada
  14. 1.9 119 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  15. 1.9 132 km E of McCarthy, 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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