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M 2.9ml

26 km ENE of Sterling, Alaska

· 39 km deep · released about 680 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.9 (ml)
Depth
39 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Anchorage Municipality, 82 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 124 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 680 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 22,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 680 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 60.6260, -150.3070. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Anchorage Municipality, AK 82 km (51 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Anchorage Municipality
Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK 114 km (71 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Kenai Peninsula 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. 1.6 31 km ENE of Sterling, Alaska
  2. 1.9 24 km ESE of Funny River, Alaska
  3. 2.1 21 km S of Point Possession, Alaska
  4. 1.6 14 km S of Point Possession, Alaska
  5. 1.8 18 km SE of Funny River, Alaska
  6. 2.2 17 km NE of Sterling, Alaska
  7. 1.6 18 km S of Point Possession, Alaska
  8. 2.5 7 km NNE of Sterling, Alaska
  9. 1.7 22 km E of Sterling, Alaska
  10. 1.9 9 km ENE of Sterling, Alaska
  11. 2.7 9 km ENE of Sterling, Alaska
  12. 1.8 9 km SSW of Point Possession, Alaska
  13. 1.6 23 km NNW of Cooper Landing, Alaska
  14. 1.6 19 km W of Cooper Landing, Alaska
  15. 1.6 26 km WSW of Cooper Landing, 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 2023-04-10 — it released about 710 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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