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M 2.4ml

9 km NW of Harding-Birch Lakes, Alaska

· 7.1 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (ml)
Depth
7.1 km below the surface
Felt
4 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Nearest
Fairbanks North Star Borough, 30 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1769 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 4 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 120 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 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 64.4245, -146.7458. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK 30 km (19 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Fairbanks North Star Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.9 Central Alaska
  2. 1.5 Central Alaska
  3. 1.5 8 km NW of Harding-Birch Lakes, Alaska
  4. 2.0 36 km SSW of Harding-Birch Lakes, Alaska
  5. 1.5 Central Alaska
  6. 1.6 Central Alaska
  7. 2.0 3 km ESE of Two Rivers, Alaska
  8. 1.7 5 km SW of Salcha, Alaska
  9. 2.0 22 km SW of Salcha, Alaska
  10. 1.6 Central Alaska
  11. 2.2 12 km WSW of Harding-Birch Lakes, Alaska
  12. 2.0 17 km NE of Harding-Birch Lakes, Alaska
  13. 1.7 24 km SW of Salcha, Alaska
  14. 1.7 17 km ENE of Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska
  15. 1.6 Central 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 4.9 on 2021-09-14 — it released about 5,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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