124 km NNW of Yakutat, Alaska

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 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 5.7 on 2026-01-01 — about 710,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 12 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

1. 6.0 90 km NNW of Yakutat, Alaska · 35 km S of this epicentre Jul 17, 2014
2. 5.7 126 km NW of Yakutat, Alaska · 38 km WSW of this epicentre Jun 17, 1963
3. 5.7 100 km NW of Yakutat, Alaska · 41 km SSW of this epicentre Jan 9, 1985
4. 5.6 115 km NNW of Yakutat, Alaska · 28 km SW of this epicentre Dec 23, 1965
5. 5.5 115 km NNW of Yakutat, Alaska · 31 km SW of this epicentre Jun 27, 1963

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 60.6100, -140.3910. 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. 1.8 137 km ESE of McCarthy, Alaska 22:18 UTC
2. 1.8 123 km NNW of Yakutat, Alaska 19:03 UTC
3. 1.6 116 km N of Yakutat, Alaska 17:53 UTC
4. 2.7 113 km N of Yakutat, Alaska 11:06 UTC
5. 1.6 137 km ESE of McCarthy, Alaska 00:33 UTC
6. 1.6 137 km ESE of McCarthy, Alaska 22:33 UTC
7. 1.9 115 km N of Yakutat, Alaska 20:22 UTC
8. 1.8 119 km N of Yakutat, Alaska 12:51 UTC
9. 1.9 117 km N of Yakutat, Alaska 07:47 UTC
10. 1.9 114 km N of Yakutat, Alaska 06:26 UTC
11. 1.8 113 km N of Yakutat, Alaska 03:45 UTC
12. 1.8 130 km N of Yakutat, Alaska 01:41 UTC
13. 1.8 112 km N of Yakutat, Alaska 01:13 UTC
14. 2.1 113 km N of Yakutat, Alaska 23:57 UTC
15. 1.7 117 km N of Yakutat, Alaska 21:36 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 03:14 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

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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