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M 1.6ml

55 km SW of Haines Junction, Canada

· 11 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Yakutat City and Borough, 126 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2191 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 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 60.4435, -138.2998. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Yakutat City and Borough, AK 126 km (78 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Yakutat City and Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 124 km NE of Yakutat, Alaska
  2. 2.6 113 km NE of Yakutat, Alaska
  3. 1.6 168 km NNE of Yakutat, Alaska
  4. 1.8 166 km NNE of Yakutat, Alaska
  5. 2.0 169 km NNE of Yakutat, Alaska
  6. 3.7 165 km NNE of Yakutat, Alaska
  7. 1.8 110 km NE of Yakutat, Alaska
  8. 1.6 164 km NNE of Yakutat, Alaska
  9. 2.5 165 km NNE of Yakutat, Alaska
  10. 1.6 164 km NNE of Yakutat, Alaska
  11. 3.0 168 km NNE of Yakutat, Alaska
  12. 1.6 164 km NNE of Yakutat, Alaska
  13. 3.3 167 km NNE of Yakutat, Alaska
  14. 1.6 120 km NE of Yakutat, Alaska
  15. 1.5 157 km W of Whitehorse, Canada

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 4.1 on 2018-04-12 — it released about 5,600 times the energy of this one.

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

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