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M 1.8ml

125 km W of Elfin Cove, Alaska

· 26 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
26 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1564 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 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 58.1777, -138.4800. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 94 km W of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  2. 2.0 98 km W of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  3. 2.6 143 km WSW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  4. 2.5 133 km WSW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  5. 1.9 99 km W of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  6. 2.1 112 km W of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  7. 1.7 115 km W of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  8. 1.9 137 km W of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  9. 2.2 154 km W of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  10. 2.1 115 km W of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  11. 2.0 94 km W of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  12. 2.1 109 km W of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  13. 1.9 120 km W of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  14. 2.3 113 km W of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  15. 2.1 113 km W of Elfin Cove, 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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