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M 1.8ml

67 km NW of Karluk, Alaska

· 86 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lake and Peninsula Borough 66 kmKodiak Island Borough 88 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
86 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lake and Peninsula Borough, 66 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1119 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 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 57.9450, -155.3367. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake and Peninsula Borough, AK 66 km (41 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Lake and Peninsula Borough
Kodiak Island Borough, AK 88 km (55 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Kodiak Island Borough
Bristol Bay Borough, AK 130 km (81 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Bristol Bay 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. 2.0 85 km W of Karluk, Alaska
  2. 1.8 54 km W of Karluk, Alaska
  3. 1.8 84 km SE of King Salmon, Alaska
  4. 1.6 83 km NW of Karluk, Alaska
  5. 2.0 74 km W of Karluk, Alaska
  6. 1.7 85 km NW of Karluk, Alaska
  7. 1.6 86 km NW of Karluk, Alaska
  8. 1.7 75 km NW of Karluk, Alaska
  9. 2.0 83 km NNW of Karluk, Alaska
  10. 1.7 34 km W of Karluk, Alaska
  11. 1.8 85 km NNW of Karluk, Alaska
  12. 2.0 89 km NNW of Karluk, Alaska
  13. 2.0 87 km NNW of Karluk, Alaska
  14. 1.7 26 km W of Karluk, Alaska
  15. 1.6 30 km W of Karluk, 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 2019-01-22 — it released about 130,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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