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M 2.5ml

117 km SE of Yakutat, Alaska

· 7.2 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.5 (ml)
Depth
7.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2045 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 170 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 170 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 58.8672, -138.1521. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 103 km NW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  2. 2.8 103 km NW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  3. 1.8 120 km NW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  4. 1.7 97 km WSW of Mosquito Lake, Alaska
  5. 1.8 94 km NW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  6. 1.9 Southeastern Alaska
  7. 2.1 102 km WSW of Mosquito Lake, Alaska
  8. 2.0 112 km ESE of Yakutat, Alaska
  9. 1.6 102 km NW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  10. 2.2 109 km ESE of Yakutat, Alaska
  11. 1.7 118 km WSW of Covenant Life, Alaska
  12. 2.1 98 km NW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  13. 1.5 101 km ESE of Yakutat, Alaska
  14. 1.7 102 km ESE of Yakutat, Alaska
  15. 1.6 106 km NW of Elfin Cove, 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 5.1 on 2019-12-18 — it released about 7,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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