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M 1.6ml

33 km SSW of Fort Greely, Alaska

· 3.0 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
3.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Fairbanks North Star Borough, 114 km NNW
Nearest mapped fault
Donnelly Dome fault (Northern Foothills fold and thrust belt), 8 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1594 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 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 63.6806, -145.9004. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK 114 km (71 mi) SSE 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

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

  1. 2.4 32 km NNE of Paxson, Alaska
  2. 2.2 30 km N of Paxson, Alaska
  3. 2.0 33 km NNE of Paxson, Alaska
  4. 1.9 10 km SSW of Fort Greely, Alaska
  5. 2.2 6 km SSW of Fort Greely, Alaska
  6. 1.8 22 km NNE of Paxson, Alaska
  7. 1.7 30 km NNE of Paxson, Alaska
  8. 1.5 49 km SSW of Fort Greely, Alaska
  9. 1.5 6 km S of Fort Greely, Alaska
  10. 2.4 10 km ENE of Fort Greely, Alaska
  11. 1.7 31 km N of Paxson, Alaska
  12. 1.6 30 km NNE of Paxson, Alaska
  13. 1.9 30 km NNE of Paxson, Alaska
  14. 1.8 52 km NNW of Paxson, Alaska
  15. 1.7 29 km NNE of Paxson, 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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