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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

61 km SW of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska

· 15 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area 90 kmDenali Borough 120 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, 90 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 852 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 64.5658, -151.4302. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, AK 90 km (56 mi) S of here earthquakes near Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area
Denali Borough, AK 120 km (74 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Denali 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. 2.3 50 km SSE of Tanana, Alaska
  2. 2.0 44 km WSW of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  3. 1.7 35 km SE of Tanana, Alaska
  4. 2.3 70 km NE of Lake Minchumina, Alaska
  5. 1.6 30 km W of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  6. 2.1 51 km NE of Lake Minchumina, Alaska
  7. 1.7 49 km SSE of Tanana, Alaska
  8. 3.2 71 km NE of Lake Minchumina, Alaska
  9. 1.5 46 km SSW of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  10. 2.6 46 km SSW of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  11. 1.5 76 km NE of Lake Minchumina, Alaska
  12. 1.6 63 km SSW of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  13. 2.1 31 km SW of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  14. 2.0 70 km NE of Lake Minchumina, Alaska
  15. 1.5 40 km SSW of Manley Hot Springs, 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 4.3 on 2020-08-04 — it released about 7,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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