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M 2.5ml

26 km SE of Whittier, Alaska

· 20 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Anchorage Municipality 81 kmChugach Census Area 116 km
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 2.5 (ml)
Depth
20 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Anchorage Municipality, 81 km NW
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1884 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 60.6300, -148.3002. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Anchorage Municipality, AK 81 km (50 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Anchorage Municipality
Chugach Census Area, AK 116 km (72 mi) W of here earthquakes near Chugach Census Area

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 40 km NNE of Chenega, Alaska
  2. 1.5 35 km NNE of Chenega, Alaska
  3. 1.8 22 km N of Chenega, Alaska
  4. 2.0 37 km NNE of Chenega, Alaska
  5. 1.7 39 km SE of Whittier, Alaska
  6. 1.7 35 km NNE of Whittier, Alaska
  7. 1.8 36 km NNE of Whittier, Alaska
  8. 1.7 25 km SSE of Whittier, Alaska
  9. 1.6 Southern Alaska
  10. 1.7 47 km ESE of Whittier, Alaska
  11. 1.7 42 km N of Chenega, Alaska
  12. 1.5 41 km NNE of Chenega, Alaska
  13. 1.6 19 km SSW of Whittier, Alaska
  14. 2.8 43 km SE of Whittier, Alaska
  15. 1.5 37 km NNW of Chenega, 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.

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