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M 1.7ml

92 km E of Cordova, Alaska

· 12 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Chugach Census Area, 117 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 524 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 60.5697, -144.0760. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Chugach Census Area, AK 117 km (73 mi) E 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

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

  1. 2.3 109 km E of Cordova, Alaska
  2. 1.5 124 km E of Cordova, Alaska
  3. 1.7 112 km E of Cordova, Alaska
  4. 1.6 89 km E of Cordova, Alaska
  5. 1.6 77 km S of Chitina, Alaska
  6. 1.7 105 km SSW of McCarthy, Alaska
  7. 1.6 87 km SSW of McCarthy, Alaska
  8. 1.7 124 km SSW of McCarthy, Alaska
  9. 1.5 119 km ESE of Cordova, Alaska
  10. 1.8 112 km ESE of Cordova, Alaska
  11. 2.0 106 km E of Cordova, Alaska
  12. 1.7 96 km SSW of McCarthy, Alaska
  13. 1.6 104 km E of Cordova, Alaska
  14. 1.7 102 km E of Cordova, Alaska
  15. 1.5 92 km SSW of McCarthy, 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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