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M 1.7ml

5 km SW of Salcha, Alaska

· 8.2 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
8.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Fairbanks North Star Borough, 31 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1270 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 64.4846, -146.9723. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK 31 km (19 mi) SW 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

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

  1. 2.2 2 km SSW of Salcha, Alaska
  2. 1.8 3 km S of Salcha, Alaska
  3. 1.8 3 km SSW of Salcha, Alaska
  4. 1.8 3 km S of Salcha, Alaska
  5. 1.8 3 km SSW of Salcha, Alaska
  6. 1.5 2 km SSW of Salcha, Alaska
  7. 2.1 5 km SSE of Salcha, Alaska
  8. 2.3 3 km SW of Salcha, Alaska
  9. 1.8 4 km SSW of Salcha, Alaska
  10. 3.4 4 km S of Salcha, Alaska
  11. 2.6 4 km SSW of Salcha, Alaska
  12. 1.7 4 km SW of Salcha, Alaska
  13. 1.9 6 km SW of Salcha, Alaska
  14. 1.6 4 km SW of Salcha, Alaska
  15. 2.2 3 km SSW of Salcha, 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 4.9 on 2021-09-14 — it released about 63,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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