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M 2.1ml

64 km ESE of Mud Bay, Alaska

· 7.8 km deep · released about 43 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Juneau City and Borough 65 kmHaines Borough 73 kmSkagway Municipality 89 kmHoonah-Angoon Census Area 109 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
7.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Juneau City and Borough, 65 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 572 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 43 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 22× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 43 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 58.9519, -134.3243. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Juneau City and Borough, AK 65 km (40 mi) N of here earthquakes near Juneau City and Borough
Haines Borough, AK 73 km (46 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Haines Borough
Skagway Municipality, AK 89 km (55 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Skagway Municipality
Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, AK 109 km (68 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Hoonah-Angoon Census Area

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.8 60 km N of Juneau, Alaska
  2. 3.0 45 km SE of Mud Bay, Alaska
  3. 1.8 45 km SE of Mud Bay, Alaska
  4. 2.4 56 km N of Juneau, Alaska
  5. 2.6 56 km N of Juneau, Alaska
  6. 2.3 58 km N of Juneau, Alaska
  7. 2.8 58 km N of Juneau, Alaska
  8. 2.0 70 km ESE of Mud Bay, 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 4.2 on 2022-10-10 — it released about 1,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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