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M 1.9ml

115 km ESE of Yakutat, Alaska

· 5.5 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
5.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, 139 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1272 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 21 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 45× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 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 59.0468, -137.9576. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, AK 139 km (87 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Hoonah-Angoon Census Area

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 89 km NW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  2. 2.2 83 km ESE of Yakutat, Alaska
  3. 1.9 120 km NW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  4. 1.6 80 km ESE of Yakutat, Alaska
  5. 2.2 83 km ESE of Yakutat, Alaska
  6. 1.6 84 km ESE of Yakutat, Alaska
  7. 1.6 101 km NW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  8. 2.4 112 km WSW of Covenant Life, Alaska
  9. 1.7 95 km ESE of Yakutat, Alaska
  10. 2.0 105 km WNW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  11. 1.7 108 km WSW of Covenant Life, Alaska
  12. 2.0 87 km NW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  13. 1.6 113 km SE of Yakutat, Alaska
  14. 2.0 110 km ESE of Yakutat, Alaska
  15. 1.7 111 km WSW of Covenant Life, 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 4.3 on 2021-02-08 — it released about 4,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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