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M 1.7ml

58 km SSE of Cantwell, Alaska

· 13 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Matanuska-Susitna Borough 95 kmDenali Borough 117 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, 95 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2021 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 62.9384, -148.3654. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK 95 km (59 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Matanuska-Susitna Borough
Denali Borough, AK 117 km (73 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Denali Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.0 59 km SSE of Cantwell, Alaska
  2. 3.0 59 km SSE of Cantwell, Alaska
  3. 1.8 Central Alaska
  4. 1.6 59 km SSE of Cantwell, Alaska
  5. 2.6 59 km SSE of Cantwell, Alaska
  6. 1.8 63 km SE of Cantwell, Alaska
  7. 2.0 82 km N of Chickaloon, Alaska
  8. 2.4 52 km S of Cantwell, Alaska
  9. 2.7 74 km SSE of Cantwell, Alaska
  10. 2.8 65 km SSE of Cantwell, Alaska
  11. 2.2 66 km SSE of Cantwell, Alaska
  12. 1.6 73 km SSE of Cantwell, Alaska
  13. 1.8 Central Alaska
  14. 1.5 52 km S of Cantwell, Alaska
  15. 1.5 62 km SSE of Cantwell, 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 2019-10-27 — it released about 16,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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