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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

87 km W of Mosquito Lake, Alaska

· 11 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Haines Borough, 124 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2181 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 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 59.4843, -137.6323. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Haines Borough, AK 124 km (77 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Haines Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 97 km ENE of Yakutat, Alaska
  2. 3.7 97 km ENE of Yakutat, Alaska
  3. 2.1 102 km WSW of Mosquito Lake, Alaska
  4. 1.6 92 km E of Yakutat, Alaska
  5. 1.7 73 km WSW of Covenant Life, Alaska
  6. 1.7 76 km W of Mosquito Lake, Alaska
  7. 1.5 101 km ESE of Yakutat, Alaska
  8. 1.7 102 km ESE of Yakutat, Alaska
  9. 1.5 74 km WSW of Mosquito Lake, Alaska
  10. 1.5 106 km WSW of Mosquito Lake, Alaska
  11. 1.7 74 km W of Mosquito Lake, Alaska
  12. 1.6 68 km WSW of Covenant Life, Alaska
  13. 1.9 British Columbia, Canada
  14. 1.7 88 km WSW of Covenant Life, Alaska
  15. 1.5 65 km WSW of Mosquito Lake, 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 4.6 on 2016-11-16 — it released about 16,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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