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M 2.3ml

133 km E of Chignik, Alaska

· 12 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 499 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 85 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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 56.4223, -156.2579. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 108 km WSW of Akhiok, Alaska
  2. 2.8 94 km SSE of Ugashik, Alaska
  3. 2.7 139 km WSW of Akhiok, Alaska
  4. 2.7 107 km SSE of Ugashik, Alaska
  5. 2.8 105 km WSW of Akhiok, Alaska
  6. 2.5 126 km WSW of Akhiok, Alaska
  7. 2.6 129 km SW of Akhiok, Alaska
  8. 3.1 110 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  9. 2.8 117 km E of Chignik, Alaska
  10. 2.9 105 km SSE of Ugashik, Alaska
  11. 2.2 114 km WSW of Akhiok, Alaska
  12. 4.3 120 km E of Chignik, Alaska
  13. 3.9 122 km SW of Akhiok, Alaska
  14. 2.6 109 km E of Chignik, Alaska
  15. 2.5 108 km E of Chignik, 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 6.9 on 2021-10-11 — it released about 7,900,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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