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M 1.8ml

33 km NW of Sitka, Alaska

· 0.6 km deep · released about 15 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
0.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Sitka City and Borough, 21 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 356 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 15 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 15 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 57.2880, -135.6666. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Sitka City and Borough, AK 21 km (13 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Sitka City and Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 55 km WNW of Sitka, Alaska
  2. 2.0 17 km N of Sitka, Alaska
  3. 2.1 57 km WNW of Sitka, Alaska
  4. 1.9 48 km W of Sitka, Alaska
  5. 1.6 44 km W of Sitka, Alaska
  6. 1.6 53 km W of Sitka, Alaska
  7. 1.5 52 km W of Sitka, Alaska
  8. 2.2 19 km WNW of Sitka, Alaska
  9. 1.9 55 km WNW of Sitka, 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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