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M 2.6ml

12 km WNW of Anchorage, Alaska

· 42 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Anchorage Municipality 46 kmMatanuska-Susitna Borough 117 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 2.6 (ml)
Depth
42 km below the surface
Felt
9 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Anchorage Municipality, 46 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1717 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 9 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 61.2564, -150.1206. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Anchorage Municipality, AK 46 km (28 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Anchorage Municipality
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK 117 km (73 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Matanuska-Susitna Borough
Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK 155 km (96 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Kenai Peninsula Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 5 km SE of Point MacKenzie, Alaska
  2. 1.6 29 km S of Susitna, Alaska
  3. 1.5 18 km WSW of Anchorage, Alaska
  4. 1.5 20 km E of Point Possession, Alaska
  5. 2.7 3 km SSE of Houston, Alaska
  6. 1.5 12 km NNE of Susitna, Alaska
  7. 1.5 8 km NNW of Susitna, Alaska
  8. 1.5 1 km WNW of Big Lake, Alaska
  9. 2.0 4 km NE of Knik, Alaska
  10. 1.6 5 km E of Susitna, Alaska
  11. 1.5 5 km W of Point MacKenzie, Alaska
  12. 1.6 5 km ENE of Point MacKenzie, Alaska
  13. 1.7 8 km S of Willow, Alaska
  14. 1.8 8 km SSW of Willow, Alaska
  15. 1.5 9 km NE of Susitna, 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 7.1 on 2018-11-30 — it released about 5,600,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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