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M 2.3ml

177 km SE of Nikolski, Alaska

· 26 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (ml)
Depth
26 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1826 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 85 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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 51.7130, -167.2040. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.5 155 km SE of Nikolski, Alaska
  2. 3.8 167 km SE of Nikolski, Alaska
  3. 2.5 137 km SSE of Nikolski, Alaska
  4. 2.4 146 km SSE of Nikolski, Alaska
  5. 2.7 198 km SE of Nikolski, Alaska
  6. 2.5 194 km SSE of Nikolski, Alaska
  7. 1.8 145 km SE of Nikolski, Alaska
  8. 2.1 153 km SE of Nikolski, Alaska
  9. 3.2 184 km SE of Nikolski, Alaska
  10. 3.7 189 km SE of Nikolski, Alaska
  11. 3.1 165 km SE of Nikolski, Alaska
  12. 3.1 192 km SSE of Nikolski, Alaska
  13. 2.3 164 km SE of Nikolski, Alaska
  14. 2.8 167 km SE of Nikolski, Alaska
  15. 2.3 190 km SSE of Nikolski, 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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