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M 2.2ml

234 km SE of Akutan, Alaska

· 9.0 km deep · released about 60 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.2 (ml)
Depth
9.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 332 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 60 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 16× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 60 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 52.5630, -163.4205. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.2 228 km S of False Pass, Alaska
  2. 2.7 209 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  3. 2.8 194 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  4. 3.0 187 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  5. 2.3 200 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  6. 3.0 210 km S of False Pass, Alaska
  7. 2.9 213 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  8. 2.9 198 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  9. 2.5 221 km S of False Pass, Alaska
  10. 2.7 219 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  11. 2.6 215 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  12. 3.2 239 km S of False Pass, Alaska
  13. 2.8 221 km S of False Pass, Alaska
  14. 2.7 224 km SSE of Akutan, 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 5.3 on 2024-10-16 — it released about 45,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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