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M 1.5ml
Earthquake near Homer, AK
No earthquake was likely felt in Homer in the 24 hours to 8:51 pm AKST (05:51 UTC). The last one was M 4.3, 71 km (44 mi) NNE, at 2:30 am AKST on 1 November 2026, estimated intensity II (weak) in town; 115 felt reports to USGS. Every earthquake near Homer
This page: a magnitude 1.5 earthquake was recorded 16 km (10 mi) east-southeast of Homer, AK, at 12:45 am AKST on 6 February 2025 (09:45 UTC), 5.2 km deep.
USGS: 2 km W of Halibut Cove, Alaska
- When
- 12:45 am AKST on 6 February 2025 ()
- Where
- 16 km (10 mi) east-southeast of Homer, AK · earthquakes near Homer
- Magnitude
- M 1.5 (ml)
- Depth
- 5.2 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Kenai Peninsula Borough, 104 km NW
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 624 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 9 km (6 mi) from the epicentre. In Homer, 16 km away, the estimate is intensity II (weak). 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.
Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Fritz Creek, Diamond Ridge.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 4.9 on 2024-01-07 — about 130,000 times the energy of this one.
Before 2016, the USGS record lists 9 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:
- 6.2 43 km ESE of Halibut Cove, Alaska · 45 km ESE of this epicentre
- 6.0 6 km SSE of Fox River, Alaska · 30 km NE of this epicentre
- 5.9 13 km N of Fox River, Alaska · 45 km NNE of this epicentre
- 5.7 30 km ESE of Port Graham, Alaska · 41 km S of this epicentre
- 5.6 7 km SE of Fritz Creek, Alaska · 10 km NNE 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 59.5966, -151.2744. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK | 104 km (64 mi) | NW | earthquakes near Kenai Peninsula 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.
- 2.5 2 km SSW of Kachemak City, Alaska
- 1.8 12 km W of Fox River, Alaska
- 2.6 12 km SE of Fox River, Alaska
- 2.4 1 km E of Diamond Ridge, Alaska
- 1.6 10 km S of Fox River, Alaska
- 1.7 16 km N of Fox River, Alaska
- 1.6 3 km SSE of Kachemak, Alaska
- 1.6 11 km N of Fritz Creek, Alaska
- 1.8 1 km SW of Diamond Ridge, Alaska
- 1.6 3 km W of Halibut Cove, Alaska
- 2.1 10 km NW of Fox River, Alaska
- 2.1 7 km ENE of Happy Valley, Alaska
- 2.0 13 km NNW of Fritz Creek, Alaska
- 2.3 7 km WNW of Seldovia Village, Alaska
- 1.7 9 km WNW of Fritz Creek, 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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