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M 1.7ml

34 km S of Chenega, Alaska

· 13 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Chugach Census Area, 132 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1334 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 59.7613, -148.0787. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Chugach Census Area, AK 132 km (82 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Chugach Census Area

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 15 km WNW of Chenega, Alaska
  2. 1.6 10 km ESE of Chenega, Alaska
  3. 1.7 11 km NW of Chenega, Alaska
  4. 2.0 7 km E of Chenega, Alaska
  5. 1.7 7 km ENE of Chenega, Alaska
  6. 1.9 13 km SSE of Chenega, Alaska
  7. 1.9 5 km ENE of Chenega, Alaska
  8. 1.6 5 km E of Chenega, Alaska
  9. 1.6 45 km S of Chenega, Alaska
  10. 1.5 14 km ESE of Chenega, Alaska
  11. 1.8 4 km ENE of Chenega, Alaska
  12. 1.8 6 km E of Chenega, Alaska
  13. 1.8 19 km SSE of Chenega, Alaska
  14. 2.2 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
  15. 1.5 16 km SSE of Chenega, 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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