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M 1.7ml

4 km SE of Big Lake, Alaska

· 34 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Anchorage Municipality 48 kmMatanuska-Susitna Borough 88 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
34 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Anchorage Municipality, 48 km SE
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1943 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 61.4923, -149.8982. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Anchorage Municipality, AK 48 km (30 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Anchorage Municipality
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK 88 km (55 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Matanuska-Susitna 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.

  1. 2.1 13 km WNW of Fishhook, Alaska
  2. 2.4 16 km NNE of Willow, Alaska
  3. 2.3 8 km W of Willow, Alaska
  4. 1.5 11 km E of Willow, Alaska
  5. 1.7 16 km W of Willow, Alaska
  6. 3.0 14 km NNE of Houston, Alaska
  7. 2.0 5 km ENE of Point MacKenzie, Alaska
  8. 2.0 6 km E of Point MacKenzie, Alaska
  9. 2.0 5 km NE of Point MacKenzie, Alaska
  10. 2.9 12 km N of Meadow Lakes, Alaska
  11. 1.6 11 km SW of Point MacKenzie, Alaska
  12. 1.8 6 km NW of Point MacKenzie, Alaska
  13. 1.8 4 km ESE of Big Lake, Alaska
  14. 1.8 8 km ENE of Big Lake, Alaska
  15. 1.5 10 km SW of Point MacKenzie, 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 7.1 on 2018-11-30 — it released about 130,000,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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