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M 2.6ml

4 km SW of Minto, Alaska

Yes. A magnitude 2.6 earthquake was recorded 4 km SW of Minto, Alaska, at 8:24 pm AKDT on 2 May 2021 (04:24 UTC), 17 km deep. The magnitude and location are an automatic first estimate and may change.

· 17 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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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
Magnitude
M 2.6 (ml)
Depth
17 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, 104 km WNW
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1953 days ago

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

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 17 km (11 mi) from the epicentre. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 4.5 on 2019-04-11 — about 710 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 5 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km:

  1. 6.5 15 km S of Rampart, Alaska · 43 km NW of this epicentre
  2. 6.0 36 km E of Minto, Alaska · 41 km E of this epicentre
  3. 5.5 30 km S of Rampart, Alaska · 40 km WNW of this epicentre
  4. 5.2 14 km E of Minto, Alaska · 18 km E of this epicentre
  5. 5.0 14 km E of Minto, Alaska · 18 km ENE of this epicentre

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 65.1242, -149.4251. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, AK 104 km (65 mi) WNW earthquakes near Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 4.5 15 km NNW of Four Mile Road, Alaska
  2. 2.1 Central Alaska
  3. 1.8 25 km NE of Minto, Alaska
  4. 3.5 16 km NNW of Four Mile Road, Alaska
  5. 2.6 18 km E of Minto, Alaska
  6. 1.9 23 km S of Minto, Alaska
  7. 2.2 19 km N of Four Mile Road, Alaska
  8. 1.5 20 km E of Minto, Alaska
  9. 2.5 14 km NW of Four Mile Road, Alaska
  10. 1.9 21 km N of Four Mile Road, Alaska
  11. 2.8 28 km N of Four Mile Road, Alaska
  12. 1.7 21 km N of Four Mile Road, Alaska
  13. 1.5 14 km NNW of Four Mile Road, Alaska
  14. 1.7 30 km WNW of Minto, Alaska
  15. 1.8 14 km NW of Four Mile Road, 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.

On USGS

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