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M 3.2ml

28 km ENE of Cantwell, Alaska

Yes. A magnitude 3.2 earthquake was recorded 28 km ENE of Cantwell, Alaska, at 10:21 am AKDT on 18 July 2024 (18:21 UTC), 3.6 km deep. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

· 3.6 km deep · released about 1,900 lb of TNT

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Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 3.2 (ml)
Depth
3.6 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Denali Borough, 85 km WNW
Nearest mapped fault
Denali fault, 3 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 776 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 46 km (29 mi) from the epicentre. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,900 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,900 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2× more

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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 5.5 on 2021-04-08 — about 2,800 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 6 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

  1. 7.9 2002 Denali Fault, Alaska Earthquake · 47 km E of this epicentre
  2. 6.6 53 km ENE of Cantwell, Alaska · 25 km ENE of this epicentre
  3. 5.4 38 km SSE of Cantwell, Alaska · 40 km SSW of this epicentre
  4. 5.1 77 km E of Cantwell, Alaska · 48 km E of this epicentre
  5. 5.1 36 km ENE of Cantwell, Alaska · 8 km ENE of this epicentre

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 63.4451, -148.3898. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Denali Borough, AK 85 km (53 mi) WNW earthquakes near Denali Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 43 km SE of Cantwell, Alaska
  2. 2.3 54 km ESE of Cantwell, Alaska
  3. 1.9 14 km ESE of Denali Park, Alaska
  4. 1.6 31 km SE of Cantwell, Alaska
  5. 1.6 18 km NE of Cantwell, Alaska
  6. 2.2 33 km ESE of Cantwell, Alaska
  7. 2.5 33 km ESE of Cantwell, Alaska
  8. 1.8 33 km SSE of Cantwell, Alaska
  9. 1.6 23 km ENE of Cantwell, Alaska
  10. 1.8 24 km ENE of Denali Park, Alaska
  11. 1.5 32 km E of Cantwell, Alaska
  12. 1.8 43 km SE of Cantwell, Alaska
  13. 2.4 6 km NNE of Denali Park, Alaska
  14. 1.5 37 km ENE of Cantwell, Alaska
  15. 1.9 41 km ESE of Cantwell, 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.

On USGS

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