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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

157 km E of McCarthy, Alaska

· 6.8 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
6.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1129 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 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 61.3431, -139.9793. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 130 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  2. 1.6 142 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  3. 1.8 173 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  4. 1.5 129 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  5. 1.6 134 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  6. 2.1 134 km ESE of McCarthy, Alaska
  7. 2.6 159 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  8. 2.6 157 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  9. 2.9 151 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  10. 4.1 157 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  11. 1.9 160 km SSE of Alcan Border, Alaska
  12. 2.1 151 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  13. 2.5 153 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  14. 1.9 176 km SSE of Alcan Border, Alaska
  15. 2.7 166 km E 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 4.8 on 2023-08-06 — it released about 89,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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