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M 1.9ml

159 km S of McCarthy, Alaska

Yes. A magnitude 1.9 earthquake was recorded 159 km S of McCarthy, Alaska at 14:01 UTC on 2025-11-26, 18 km deep.

· 18 km deep · released about 19 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Yakutat City and Borough 117 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
18 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Yakutat City and Borough, 117 km E
Nearest mapped fault
Pamplona fault, 3 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 346 days ago

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

At this magnitude and depth it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 19 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 810,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 570,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 51× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 19 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.

For this area

No earthquake of M4 or more has been recorded within 50 km since our catalogue begins in 2016.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 4 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km:

  1. 6.7 163 km W of Yakutat, Alaska · 27 km S of this epicentre
  2. 5.8 162 km WNW of Yakutat, Alaska · 7 km S of this epicentre
  3. 5.8 160 km W of Yakutat, Alaska · 38 km S of this epicentre
  4. 5.5 164 km S of McCarthy, Alaska · 5 km SSW of this epicentre

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 60.0113, -142.5180. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Yakutat City and Borough, AK 117 km (73 mi) E earthquakes near Yakutat City and Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.1 123 km S of McCarthy, Alaska
  2. 1.0 117 km S of McCarthy, Alaska
  3. 1.1 128 km SSE of McCarthy, Alaska
  4. 2.3 140 km S of McCarthy, Alaska
  5. 1.6 121 km S of McCarthy, Alaska
  6. 1.9 120 km S of McCarthy, Alaska
  7. 2.5 139 km S of McCarthy, Alaska
  8. 2.1 139 km S of McCarthy, Alaska
  9. 2.5 139 km WNW of Yakutat, Alaska
  10. 1.6 137 km SSE of McCarthy, Alaska
  11. 1.8 164 km ESE of Cordova, Alaska
  12. 1.5 131 km SSE of McCarthy, Alaska
  13. 2.4 119 km S of McCarthy, Alaska
  14. 1.8 129 km S of McCarthy, Alaska
  15. 2.0 122 km S of McCarthy, 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.

On USGS

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