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M 1.7ml

28 km WNW of Ester, Alaska

· 6.6 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
6.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Fairbanks North Star Borough, 103 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 912 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 64.9244, -148.5795. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK 103 km (64 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Fairbanks North Star Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 18 km N of Four Mile Road, Alaska
  2. 1.5 19 km NNE of Four Mile Road, Alaska
  3. 2.2 14 km N of Four Mile Road, Alaska
  4. 4.2 15 km N of Four Mile Road, Alaska
  5. 3.0 13 km N of Four Mile Road, Alaska
  6. 1.6 31 km SSE of Minto, Alaska
  7. 1.7 32 km SSE of Minto, Alaska
  8. 1.7 31 km ESE of Minto, Alaska
  9. 1.5 21 km ENE of Minto, Alaska
  10. 2.0 35 km NW of Ester, Alaska
  11. 1.9 25 km NE of Four Mile Road, Alaska
  12. 1.9 21 km NE of Minto, Alaska
  13. 2.2 27 km SE of Minto, Alaska
  14. 1.5 30 km ESE of Minto, Alaska
  15. 2.5 24 km SSW of Ester, 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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