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M 2.0ml

118 km SSE of McCarthy, Alaska

· 3.6 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
3.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Yakutat City and Borough, 97 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1285 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 60.4897, -141.9049. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Yakutat City and Borough, AK 97 km (61 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Yakutat City and Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 129 km SSE of McCarthy, Alaska
  2. 2.5 123 km SSE of McCarthy, Alaska
  3. 2.1 128 km SSE of McCarthy, Alaska
  4. 2.7 129 km SSE of McCarthy, Alaska
  5. 1.9 129 km SSE of McCarthy, Alaska
  6. 1.7 127 km SSE of McCarthy, Alaska
  7. 1.6 119 km SSE of McCarthy, Alaska
  8. 1.5 128 km WNW of Yakutat, Alaska
  9. 2.0 126 km SSE of McCarthy, Alaska
  10. 1.5 133 km NW of Yakutat, Alaska
  11. 1.6 95 km SSE of McCarthy, Alaska
  12. 1.6 114 km SSE of McCarthy, Alaska
  13. 3.4 134 km SE of McCarthy, Alaska
  14. 2.5 121 km SE of McCarthy, Alaska
  15. 1.8 141 km SSE of McCarthy, 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 4.0 on 2020-01-22 — it released about 1,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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