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M 2.0ml

0 km ESE of Chase, Alaska

· 7.8 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
7.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, 37 km ESE
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1902 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.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. 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

Epicentre 62.4479, -150.0935. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK 37 km (23 mi) NW 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

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

  1. 1.5 20 km ESE of Chase, Alaska
  2. 1.5 14 km ESE of Susitna North, Alaska
  3. 2.9 11 km SSE of Susitna North, Alaska
  4. 1.5 20 km E of Chase, Alaska
  5. 1.8 Central Alaska
  6. 2.5 11 km SW of Trapper Creek, Alaska
  7. 1.5 15 km NNW of Chase, Alaska
  8. 1.5 21 km NNE of Petersville, Alaska
  9. 1.7 7 km SSE of Talkeetna, Alaska
  10. 1.8 7 km SE of Susitna North, Alaska
  11. 1.9 36 km NNE of Petersville, Alaska
  12. 1.6 11 km SSE of Trapper Creek, Alaska
  13. 1.8 27 km E of Chase, Alaska
  14. 1.6 37 km NE of Chase, Alaska
  15. 1.5 44 km NE of Chase, 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 4.6 on 2020-11-26 — it released about 7,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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