68 km ESE of Denali National Park, Alaska

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 63.3451, -150.4311. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 1.7 56 km NNE of Petersville, Alaska 19:00 UTC
2. 1.5 57 km ESE of Denali National Park, Alaska 01:43 UTC
3. 2.3 65 km ESE of Denali National Park, Alaska 01:22 UTC
4. 1.8 69 km WSW of Ferry, Alaska 05:22 UTC
5. 1.6 61 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska 08:42 UTC
6. 1.5 57 km N of Petersville, Alaska 05:57 UTC
7. 2.7 62 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska 17:12 UTC
8. 1.9 62 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska 06:24 UTC
9. 1.9 48 km NNE of Petersville, Alaska 06:54 UTC
10. 1.6 42 km E of Denali National Park, Alaska 05:24 UTC
11. 1.5 64 km ESE of Denali National Park, Alaska 20:10 UTC
12. 1.5 50 km W of Cantwell, Alaska 01:43 UTC
13. 1.5 57 km N of Petersville, Alaska 13:35 UTC
14. 2.0 59 km N of Petersville, Alaska 09:32 UTC
15. 1.7 50 km WSW of Denali Park, Alaska 15:42 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 20:58 UTC. 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 2016-05-15 — it released about 350,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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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