Earthquake near Anchor Point, AK

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

At this magnitude and depth it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. In Anchor Point, 49 km away, the estimate is intensity I (not felt). 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 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 5.6 on 2017-03-02 — about 250,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 24 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

1. 6.4 75 km WNW of Ninilchik, Alaska · 37 km NW of this epicentre Feb 7, 1988
2. 6.4 52 km ENE of Pedro Bay, Alaska · 37 km WSW of this epicentre Jul 29, 2015
3. 6.2 16 km WNW of Happy Valley, Alaska · 32 km E of this epicentre Dec 24, 1931
4. 6.2 70 km E of Port Alsworth, Alaska · 31 km WNW of this epicentre Dec 17, 1968
5. 6.1 73 km WNW of Ninilchik, Alaska · 43 km NNW of this epicentre Jul 9, 1998

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 60.0079, -152.5775. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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. 2.1 72 km WNW of Ninilchik, Alaska 12:31 UTC
2. 1.5 74 km WNW of Ninilchik, Alaska 23:50 UTC
3. 1.6 63 km W of Happy Valley, Alaska 20:28 UTC
4. 1.5 38 km WNW of Ninilchik, Alaska 11:42 UTC
5. 1.5 13 km WNW of Anchor Point, Alaska 09:47 UTC
6. 1.7 61 km W of Anchor Point, Alaska 09:19 UTC
7. 1.6 63 km W of Anchor Point, Alaska 06:28 UTC
8. 3.2 43 km NW of Ninilchik, Alaska 22:44 UTC
9. 1.9 64 km WNW of Anchor Point, Alaska 13:56 UTC
10. 2.0 58 km E of Pedro Bay, Alaska 08:15 UTC
11. 1.7 68 km WNW of Anchor Point, Alaska 05:15 UTC
12. 1.8 65 km W of Happy Valley, Alaska 04:00 UTC
13. 1.6 32 km W of Happy Valley, Alaska 03:17 UTC
14. 1.7 59 km WNW of Ninilchik, Alaska 00:03 UTC
15. 1.6 61 km E of Pedro Bay, Alaska 04:44 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 20:35 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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