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M 2.1ml

33 km SE of Chickaloon, Alaska

· 3.7 km deep · released about 42 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Anchorage Municipality 79 kmMatanuska-Susitna Borough 109 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
3.7 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Anchorage Municipality, 79 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 300 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 42 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 360,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 23× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 42 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 61.5660, -148.0498. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Anchorage Municipality, AK 79 km (49 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Anchorage Municipality
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK 109 km (68 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Matanuska-Susitna Borough
Chugach Census Area, AK 156 km (97 mi) NW 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

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

  1. 1.9 66 km S of Glacier View, Alaska
  2. 1.8 63 km S of Glacier View, Alaska
  3. 1.7 18 km S of Chickaloon, Alaska
  4. 1.8 21 km ESE of Chickaloon, Alaska
  5. 1.7 47 km S of Glacier View, Alaska
  6. 1.7 58 km S of Glacier View, Alaska
  7. 1.6 16 km ESE of Chickaloon, Alaska
  8. 1.6 58 km S of Glacier View, Alaska
  9. 1.6 63 km S of Glacier View, Alaska
  10. 1.5 9 km N of Glacier View, Alaska
  11. 1.8 61 km S of Glacier View, Alaska
  12. 2.6 28 km SE of Knik River, Alaska
  13. 2.1 35 km SSW of Glacier View, Alaska
  14. 1.5 10 km NNW of Chickaloon, Alaska
  15. 1.5 10 km ESE of Chickaloon, 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 4.8 on 2022-10-06 — it released about 11,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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