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M 1.5ml

13 km NE of Mosquito Lake, Alaska

· 5.9 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Skagway Municipality 34 kmHaines Borough 61 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
5.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Skagway Municipality, 34 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1686 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 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 59.6169, -135.9247. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Skagway Municipality, AK 34 km (21 mi) W of here earthquakes near Skagway Municipality
Haines Borough, AK 61 km (38 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Haines Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 19 km N of Mosquito Lake, Alaska
  2. 1.6 17 km N of Mosquito Lake, Alaska
  3. 2.1 18 km NNW of Mosquito Lake, Alaska
  4. 1.9 20 km N of Mosquito Lake, Alaska
  5. 1.6 19 km N of Mosquito Lake, Alaska
  6. 2.9 18 km SW of Covenant Life, Alaska
  7. 2.2 21 km N of Mosquito Lake, Alaska
  8. 2.7 16 km N of Mosquito Lake, Alaska
  9. 2.7 21 km SW of Covenant Life, Alaska
  10. 1.9 23 km SW of Covenant Life, Alaska
  11. 2.4 22 km SW of Covenant Life, Alaska
  12. 1.7 Southeastern Alaska
  13. 1.7 20 km NW of Mosquito Lake, Alaska
  14. 1.6 51 km N of Mosquito Lake, Alaska
  15. 2.4 22 km SW of Covenant Life, 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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