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M 2.0ml

21 km W of Chitina, Alaska

· 43 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
43 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Copper River Census Area, 74 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 582 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 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.

Where

Epicentre 61.5301, -144.8359. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Copper River Census Area, AK 74 km (46 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Copper River Census Area
Chugach Census Area, AK 137 km (85 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Chugach Census Area

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 9 km ESE of Kenny Lake, Alaska
  2. 1.8 11 km NNE of Kenny Lake, Alaska
  3. 2.8 16 km SSE of Kenny Lake, Alaska
  4. 1.6 39 km S of Tonsina, Alaska
  5. 1.6 17 km SW of Chitina, Alaska
  6. 2.7 5 km ENE of Chitina, Alaska
  7. 2.6 32 km SSW of Tonsina, Alaska
  8. 2.1 51 km S of Tonsina, Alaska
  9. 2.1 33 km WSW of Chitina, Alaska
  10. 1.9 17 km NE of Kenny Lake, Alaska
  11. 2.5 58 km SW of Chitina, 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.

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