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M 2.0ml

120 km WNW of Elfin Cove, Alaska

· 5.3 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
5.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1537 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 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 58.6780, -138.1878. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.8 108 km W of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  2. 1.9 101 km NW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  3. 2.1 117 km ESE of Yakutat, Alaska
  4. 2.4 108 km W of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  5. 2.6 119 km WSW of Covenant Life, Alaska
  6. 2.1 116 km WSW of Covenant Life, Alaska
  7. 2.4 113 km ESE of Yakutat, Alaska
  8. 1.9 British Columbia, Canada
  9. 3.3 119 km ESE of Yakutat, Alaska
  10. 1.9 British Columbia, Canada
  11. 3.7 118 km ESE of Yakutat, Alaska
  12. 2.2 95 km W of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  13. 1.6 British Columbia, Canada
  14. 2.0 110 km ESE of Yakutat, Alaska
  15. 1.9 111 km NW 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 5.1 on 2019-12-18 — it released about 45,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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