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M 2.2ml

103 km E of Chignik, Alaska

· 47 km deep · released about 60 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (ml)
Depth
47 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2098 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 60 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 16× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 60 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 56.2167, -156.7437. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 118 km ENE of Chignik, Alaska
  2. 2.3 117 km E of Chignik, Alaska
  3. 3.2 91 km ENE of Chignik, Alaska
  4. 1.9 107 km E of Chignik, Alaska
  5. 2.6 125 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  6. 2.7 107 km SSE of Ugashik, Alaska
  7. 2.7 122 km E of Chignik, Alaska
  8. 1.9 130 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  9. 2.6 115 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  10. 4.2 130 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  11. 2.0 112 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  12. 2.3 104 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  13. 2.3 110 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  14. 5.7 99 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  15. 2.2 122 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 2,800 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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