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M 2.3ml

118 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska

· 30 km deep · released about 85 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (ml)
Depth
30 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 184 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 85 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 85 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 53.8020, -164.0640. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 127 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska
  2. 2.5 97 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  3. 2.6 126 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska
  4. 2.5 100 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska
  5. 2.7 92 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska
  6. 3.0 79 km E of Akutan, Alaska
  7. 2.0 111 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska
  8. 2.0 99 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska
  9. 2.1 109 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska
  10. 2.0 104 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska
  11. 2.0 115 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska
  12. 2.4 109 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska
  13. 2.6 110 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska
  14. 2.3 114 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska
  15. 2.5 108 km E of Akutan, 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 5.7 on 2020-08-13 — it released about 130,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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