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M 1.7ml

38 km NNE of Valdez, Alaska

· 27 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
27 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Chugach Census Area, 107 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1411 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 61.4520, -146.1005. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Chugach Census Area, AK 107 km (67 mi) N of here earthquakes near Chugach Census Area
Copper River Census Area, AK 132 km (82 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Copper River 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. 1.5 38 km SSE of Nelchina, Alaska
  2. 1.5 Southern Alaska
  3. 2.2 37 km N of Valdez, Alaska
  4. 1.7 50 km N of Valdez, Alaska
  5. 1.8 49 km N of Valdez, Alaska
  6. 1.9 38 km NNW of Valdez, Alaska
  7. 2.9 35 km NNW of Valdez, Alaska
  8. 2.0 36 km SSE of Nelchina, Alaska
  9. 1.6 49 km SSE of Nelchina, Alaska
  10. 1.5 49 km N of Valdez, Alaska
  11. 1.6 36 km NNW of Valdez, Alaska
  12. 1.6 35 km N of Valdez, Alaska
  13. 1.5 39 km SSE of Nelchina, Alaska
  14. 1.6 39 km N of Valdez, Alaska
  15. 1.5 39 km SSE of Nelchina, 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 4.8 on 2022-09-24 — 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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