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M 2.5ml

117 km SE of Akhiok, Alaska

· 5.5 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.5 (ml)
Depth
5.5 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1086 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 170 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 170 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 56.1233, -152.9649. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 104 km SSE of Old Harbor, Alaska
  2. 2.6 121 km SSE of Old Harbor, Alaska
  3. 3.2 103 km SSE of Old Harbor, Alaska
  4. 2.4 104 km SSE of Akhiok, Alaska
  5. 2.7 109 km SSE of Akhiok, Alaska
  6. 3.1 107 km SSE of Akhiok, Alaska
  7. 2.9 91 km SSE of Akhiok, Alaska
  8. 2.8 103 km SSE of Akhiok, Alaska
  9. 4.9 96 km SSE of Akhiok, Alaska
  10. 4.0 102 km SSE of Akhiok, Alaska
  11. 4.3 104 km SSE of Akhiok, Alaska
  12. 3.1 108 km SSE of Old Harbor, Alaska
  13. 3.2 115 km SSE of Old Harbor, Alaska
  14. 3.1 109 km SSE of Akhiok, Alaska
  15. 3.4 136 km SSE of Akhiok, 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 5.2 on 2020-04-17 — it released about 11,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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