38 km WSW of Haines, Alaska

2020-12-28 23:06 UTC · 13 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.

When: 2020-12-28 23:06 UTC
Magnitude: M 2.0 (ml)
Depth: 13 km below the surface
Felt: no reports yet
Nearest: Haines Borough, 26 km E
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 2088 days ago · we first saw it 2088 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 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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

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Epicentre 59.0574, -136.0282. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

Place	Distance	Direction
Haines Borough, AK	26 km (16 mi)	W of here	earthquakes near Haines Borough
Skagway Municipality, AK	68 km (42 mi)	SW of here	earthquakes near Skagway Municipality
Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, AK	73 km (45 mi)	N of here	earthquakes near Hoonah-Angoon Census Area
Juneau City and Borough, AK	131 km (81 mi)	NW of here	earthquakes near Juneau 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.

2.1 49 km SSW of Covenant Life, Alaska 13:55 UTC
1.5 61 km NW of Gustavus, Alaska 06:27 UTC
1.6 28 km WSW of Covenant Life, Alaska 16:20 UTC
1.8 54 km SSW of Covenant Life, Alaska 12:50 UTC
1.5 24 km SSW of Covenant Life, Alaska 00:37 UTC
1.8 5 km NNW of Klukwan, Alaska 01:16 UTC
2.7 2 km ENE of Covenant Life, Alaska 21:35 UTC
1.6 33 km WSW of Haines, Alaska 01:39 UTC
1.6 37 km WSW of Mud Bay, Alaska 12:46 UTC
2.7 7 km WNW of Haines, Alaska 20:24 UTC
2.0 37 km SSW of Covenant Life, Alaska 23:16 UTC
1.5 46 km SSW of Covenant Life, Alaska 23:40 UTC
1.5 38 km S of Covenant Life, Alaska 09:10 UTC
1.9 15 km SW of Covenant Life, Alaska 12:11 UTC
1.5 38 km WSW of Haines, Alaska 15:59 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 23:05 UTC. 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 4.0 on 2017-08-18 — it released about 1,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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