131 km SSW of Adak, Alaska

Yes. A magnitude 2.3 earthquake was recorded 131 km SSW of Adak, Alaska at 04:45 UTC on 2024-12-09, 15 km deep.

2024-12-09 04:45 UTC · 15 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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: 2024-12-09 04:45 UTC
Magnitude: M 2.3 (ml)
Depth: 15 km below the surface
Felt: no reports yet
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 700 days ago · we first saw it 700 days ago

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

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 13 km (8 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 85 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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 6.3 on 2024-12-09 — about 1,000,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 40 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

6.8 90 km SSW of Adak, Alaska · 46 km NE of this epicentre Mar 11, 1957
6.0 130 km SSW of Adak, Alaska · 2 km N of this epicentre Mar 20, 1927
6.0 161 km SSW of Adak, Alaska · 31 km SSW of this epicentre Jan 11, 1934
6.0 136 km S of Adak, Alaska · 39 km ESE of this epicentre Mar 11, 1957
6.0 117 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 47 km NW of this epicentre Feb 26, 1960

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

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Aftershocks so far

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

2.2 119 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 13:07 UTC
2.1 104 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 12:59 UTC
2.0 83 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 12:25 UTC
2.7 111 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 12:19 UTC
2.6 124 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 11:53 UTC
2.5 128 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 11:50 UTC
2.2 117 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 11:46 UTC
2.3 130 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 11:16 UTC
2.3 123 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 11:16 UTC
2.2 127 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 10:50 UTC
2.9 132 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 10:32 UTC
2.9 96 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 10:21 UTC
2.2 116 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 10:17 UTC
2.2 102 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 10:16 UTC
3.2 122 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 09:59 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 01:59 UTC. 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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