ice quake · reviewed by a seismologist
M 1.6ml
62 km S of Glacier View, Alaska
No: USGS classifies this as a ice quake, not an earthquake. A magnitude 1.6 ice quake was recorded 62 km S of Glacier View, Alaska, at 9:52 pm AKST on 15 December 2024 (06:52 UTC), less than 1 km deep.
- When
- Magnitude
- M 1.6 (ml)
- Depth
- 0.0 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Anchorage Municipality, 87 km W
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 670 days ago
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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 11 km (7 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.
USGS catalogues this as ice quake, not an earthquake.
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.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
- 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.
For this area
The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 4.3 on 2024-11-13 — about 11,000 times the energy of this one.
Before 2016, the USGS record lists 22 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:
- 9.2 The 1964 Prince William Sound, Alaska Earthquake · 41 km SSE of this epicentre
- 6.8 31 km SSW of Glacier View, Alaska · 32 km NNW of this epicentre
- 6.6 57 km ENE of Whittier, Alaska · 25 km SSW of this epicentre
- 6.6 37 km WNW of Tatitlek, Alaska · 31 km SE of this epicentre
- 6.4 23 km S of Glacier View, Alaska · 39 km N 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 61.2462, -147.6613. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anchorage Municipality, AK | 87 km (54 mi) | W | earthquakes near Anchorage Municipality |
| Chugach Census Area, AK | 115 km (72 mi) | SE | earthquakes near Chugach Census Area |
| Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK | 149 km (93 mi) | NW | earthquakes near Matanuska-Susitna Borough |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
57 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 1.6 42 km S of Glacier View, Alaska
- 1.5 50 km S of Glacier View, Alaska
- 1.6 64 km NE of Whittier, Alaska
- 1.8 26 km WNW of Tatitlek, Alaska
- 1.8 36 km SSW of Glacier View, Alaska
- 1.5 65 km NW of Tatitlek, Alaska
- 1.7 61 km S of Glacier View, Alaska
- 1.9 37 km SSE of Glacier View, Alaska
- 1.5 44 km ENE of Whittier, Alaska
- 2.7 Southern Alaska
- 1.7 22 km S of Glacier View, Alaska
- 1.6 55 km ENE of Whittier, Alaska
- 1.6 49 km SSE of Glacier View, Alaska
- 2.9 27 km SW of Glacier View, Alaska
- 1.7 34 km SSW of Glacier View, 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
- 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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