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M 1.8ml

Southern Alaska

· 123 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
123 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kenai Peninsula Borough, 26 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1300 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 60.4162, -152.7847. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK 26 km (16 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Kenai Peninsula Borough

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 57 km ENE of Pedro Bay, Alaska
  2. 1.6 47 km WNW of Ninilchik, Alaska
  3. 1.5 58 km WNW of Ninilchik, Alaska
  4. 1.8 68 km WNW of Happy Valley, Alaska
  5. 1.6 65 km WSW of Salamatof, Alaska
  6. 2.2 Southern Alaska
  7. 1.9 62 km E of Port Alsworth, Alaska
  8. 1.7 87 km W of Salamatof, Alaska
  9. 2.3 58 km WNW of Ninilchik, Alaska
  10. 1.5 59 km NW of Ninilchik, Alaska
  11. 1.5 66 km NW of Ninilchik, Alaska
  12. 2.1 56 km W of Happy Valley, Alaska
  13. 1.8 58 km WNW of Ninilchik, Alaska
  14. 1.5 69 km WNW of Happy Valley, Alaska
  15. 2.0 69 km ENE of Pedro Bay, 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 5.9 on 2021-12-21 — it released about 1,400,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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