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M 2.0ml

211 km SW of Adak, Alaska

· 12 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 766 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 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 50.5767, -178.8416. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 250 km SW of Adak, Alaska
  2. 2.4 179 km SW of Adak, Alaska
  3. 2.8 175 km SW of Adak, Alaska
  4. 2.7 181 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  5. 2.7 176 km SW of Adak, Alaska
  6. 2.6 173 km SW of Adak, Alaska
  7. 2.2 166 km SW of Adak, Alaska
  8. 2.3 197 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  9. 2.2 170 km SW of Adak, Alaska
  10. 2.4 204 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  11. 3.4 188 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  12. 2.8 192 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  13. 2.7 247 km SW of Adak, Alaska
  14. 2.4 164 km SW of Adak, Alaska
  15. 2.5 190 km SW of Adak, 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 5.3 on 2020-02-21 — it released about 89,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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