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M 1.6ml

29 km NE of Sterling, Alaska

· 40 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
40 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Anchorage Municipality, 78 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 655 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 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 60.7050, -150.3490. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Anchorage Municipality, AK 78 km (48 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Anchorage Municipality
Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK 114 km (71 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Kenai Peninsula Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 24 km SW of Cooper Landing, Alaska
  2. 1.7 22 km WSW of Anchorage, Alaska
  3. 1.8 22 km SSW of Point Possession, Alaska
  4. 2.0 6 km ESE of Funny River, Alaska
  5. 2.5 25 km WSW of Cooper Landing, Alaska
  6. 1.7 10 km SE of Funny River, Alaska
  7. 1.9 12 km SW of Point Possession, Alaska
  8. 1.6 20 km ESE of Point Possession, Alaska
  9. 1.9 22 km S of Funny River, Alaska
  10. 1.8 13 km SSW of Funny River, Alaska
  11. 1.5 19 km S of Funny River, Alaska
  12. 1.6 9 km WNW of Point Possession, Alaska
  13. 1.8 4 km WSW of Sterling, Alaska
  14. 1.5 30 km NNW of Cooper Landing, Alaska
  15. 1.5 0 km SE of Sterling, 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 4.8 on 2023-04-10 — it released about 63,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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