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M 2.6ml

103 km ESE of McCarthy, Alaska

· 1.4 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.6 (ml)
Depth
1.4 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Yakutat City and Borough, 118 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 987 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 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 61.0086, -141.2063. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Yakutat City and Borough, AK 118 km (74 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Yakutat City and Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 100 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  2. 2.0 97 km ESE of McCarthy, Alaska
  3. 1.8 96 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  4. 1.9 122 km ESE of McCarthy, Alaska
  5. 1.8 120 km ESE of McCarthy, Alaska
  6. 2.3 92 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  7. 1.8 134 km NNW of Yakutat, Alaska
  8. 1.6 105 km ESE of McCarthy, Alaska
  9. 1.8 93 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  10. 2.0 87 km ESE of McCarthy, Alaska
  11. 1.6 96 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  12. 2.7 100 km ESE of McCarthy, Alaska
  13. 2.0 113 km ESE of McCarthy, Alaska
  14. 1.9 93 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  15. 1.8 103 km ESE 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.

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