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M 1.7ml

47 km ENE of Whittier, Alaska

· 4.4 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Anchorage Municipality 79 kmChugach Census Area 105 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
4.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Anchorage Municipality, 79 km WNW
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1697 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 60.9452, -147.8855. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Anchorage Municipality, AK 79 km (49 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Anchorage Municipality
Chugach Census Area, AK 105 km (65 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Chugach Census Area

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 38 km ESE of Whittier, Alaska
  2. 2.1 49 km WSW of Tatitlek, Alaska
  3. 2.1 43 km W of Tatitlek, Alaska
  4. 1.6 40 km WNW of Tatitlek, Alaska
  5. 2.4 55 km WSW of Tatitlek, Alaska
  6. 1.5 50 km W of Tatitlek, Alaska
  7. 1.5 50 km W of Tatitlek, Alaska
  8. 2.5 52 km ESE of Whittier, Alaska
  9. 1.9 38 km ESE of Whittier, Alaska
  10. 1.5 62 km NW of Tatitlek, Alaska
  11. 1.9 58 km NNE of Chenega, Alaska
  12. 1.5 59 km S of Glacier View, Alaska
  13. 2.3 44 km WSW of Tatitlek, Alaska
  14. 1.7 55 km ESE of Whittier, Alaska
  15. 1.8 42 km SE of Knik River, 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 5.3 on 2017-11-27 — it released about 250,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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