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explosion · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

12 km ENE of Fox, Alaska

· 0.0 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
0.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Fairbanks North Star Borough, 53 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1431 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

USGS catalogues this as explosion, not an earthquake.

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 64.9835, -147.3550. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK 53 km (33 mi) NW 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

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

  1. 1.8 12 km ENE of Fox, Alaska
  2. 1.8 11 km ENE of Fox, Alaska
  3. 1.9 4 km S of North Pole, Alaska
  4. 1.5 Central Alaska
  5. 1.6 11 km ENE of Fox, Alaska
  6. 1.8 12 km ENE of Fox, Alaska
  7. 1.5 7 km SSW of South Van Horn, Alaska
  8. 2.1 Central Alaska
  9. 2.0 10 km ENE of Fox, Alaska
  10. 1.7 Central Alaska
  11. 1.6 14 km E of Fox, Alaska
  12. 1.8 33 km N of Pleasant Valley, Alaska
  13. 1.7 10 km SSW of Badger, Alaska
  14. 1.6 11 km ENE of Fox, Alaska
  15. 1.5 13 km ENE of Fox, 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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