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M 2.5ml

8 km NW of Harding-Birch Lakes, Alaska

· 1.8 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.5 (ml)
Depth
1.8 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Fairbanks North Star Borough, 31 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 192 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 170 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 170 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 64.4150, -146.7490. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK 31 km (19 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Fairbanks North Star Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 6 km S of Salcha, Alaska
  2. 1.5 8 km NW of Harding-Birch Lakes, Alaska
  3. 1.5 2 km SE of Salcha, Alaska
  4. 1.6 5 km SSW of Salcha, Alaska
  5. 1.5 6 km ESE of Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska
  6. 1.6 13 km WSW of Harding-Birch Lakes, Alaska
  7. 1.6 4 km SSW of Salcha, Alaska
  8. 2.3 5 km S of Salcha, Alaska
  9. 1.9 8 km S of Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska
  10. 1.9 6 km E of Salcha, Alaska
  11. 2.5 3 km S of Salcha, Alaska
  12. 1.5 6 km SSW of Salcha, Alaska
  13. 1.7 31 km ESE of Pleasant Valley, Alaska
  14. 2.3 32 km ESE of Pleasant Valley, Alaska
  15. 1.6 6 km SSW of Salcha, 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 5.3 on 2024-01-19 — it released about 16,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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