72 km SSE of Kokhanok, Alaska

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

At this magnitude and depth it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. 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 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 2020-02-12 — about 22,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 12 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

1. 6.6 74 km S of Kokhanok, Alaska · 25 km WSW of this epicentre Jul 28, 2001
2. 6.0 62 km SSE of Kokhanok, Alaska · 12 km WNW of this epicentre May 4, 1937
3. 5.6 72 km S of Kokhanok, Alaska · 20 km WSW of this epicentre Nov 14, 1974
4. 5.6 62 km SE of Kokhanok, Alaska · 17 km NNE of this epicentre Mar 23, 1984
5. 5.5 73 km SSE of Kokhanok, Alaska · 6 km ENE of this epicentre May 21, 1964

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 58.8387, -154.2822. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 2.3 60 km SSE of Kokhanok, Alaska 13:41 UTC
2. 2.1 Alaska Peninsula 19:48 UTC
3. 1.6 79 km S of Kokhanok, Alaska 23:38 UTC
4. 1.6 62 km SE of Pope-Vannoy Landing, Alaska 05:18 UTC
5. 1.7 88 km WNW of Aleneva, Alaska 06:18 UTC
6. 1.7 85 km NW of Aleneva, Alaska 03:09 UTC
7. 2.5 86 km NW of Aleneva, Alaska 20:23 UTC
8. 2.3 55 km S of Kokhanok, Alaska 13:06 UTC
9. 2.0 64 km SE of Kokhanok, Alaska 16:31 UTC
10. 1.6 90 km NNW of Aleneva, Alaska 11:20 UTC
11. 3.5 60 km SE of Kokhanok, Alaska 01:13 UTC
12. 1.7 58 km SSE of Kokhanok, Alaska 02:39 UTC
13. 1.8 64 km SSE of Kokhanok, Alaska 16:31 UTC
14. 1.9 66 km S of Kokhanok, Alaska 08:33 UTC
15. 1.7 79 km NW of Aleneva, Alaska 10:17 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 10:33 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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