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M 1.8ml
Earthquake near Badger, AK
No earthquake was likely felt in Badger in the 24 hours to 5:52 pm AKST (02:52 UTC). The last one was M 5.6, 258 km (160 mi) WSW, at 3:07 am AKDT on 15 October 2026, estimated intensity II (weak) in town; 107 felt reports to USGS. Every earthquake near Badger
This page: a magnitude 1.8 earthquake was recorded 11 km (7 mi) south of Badger, AK, at 11:02 am AKDT on 7 April 2026 (19:02 UTC), 12 km deep.
USGS: 11 km S of Badger, Alaska
- When
- 11:02 am AKDT on 7 April 2026 ()
- Where
- 11 km (7 mi) south of Badger, AK · earthquakes near Badger
- Magnitude
- M 1.8 (ml)
- Depth
- 12 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Fairbanks North Star Borough, 51 km E
- Nearest mapped fault
- Atsaksovluk fault, 18 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 219 days ago
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This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.
At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 6 km (4 mi) from the epicentre. In Badger, 11 km away, the estimate is intensity II (weak). 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.
Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: North Pole, Fairbanks, College, Farmers Loop, Eielson Air Force Base, Ester.
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.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 63× the energy of this one
- 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 4.4 on 2022-12-07 — about 7,900 times the energy of this one.
Before 2016, the USGS record lists 7 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:
- 7.1 Central Alaska · 36 km ESE of this epicentre
- 6.0 39 km SW of Salcha, Alaska · 48 km S of this epicentre
- 5.7 15 km SSW of Badger, Alaska · 6 km WSW of this epicentre
- 5.5 3 km ESE of Farmers Loop, Alaska · 23 km N of this epicentre
- 5.5 10 km SSW of Badger, Alaska · 2 km WNW 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 64.7000, -147.5570. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK | 51 km (31 mi) | E | earthquakes near Fairbanks North Star Borough |
| Denali Borough, AK | 165 km (102 mi) | SW | earthquakes near Denali Borough |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
60 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 1.5 11 km E of Fox, Alaska
- 1.5 23 km SSW of Badger, Alaska
- 1.2 8 km WSW of North Pole, Alaska
- 1.1 9 km ENE of Fox, Alaska
- 1.0 8 km SSE of Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska
- 1.2 7 km ENE of Fox, Alaska
- 1.6 8 km ENE of Fox, Alaska
- 1.6 14 km E of Fox, Alaska
- 1.2 6 km E of Fox, Alaska
- 1.5 9 km ENE of Fox, Alaska
- 0.9 10 km ESE of Fox, Alaska
- 1.8 25 km SW of Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska
- 1.3 11 km E of Fox, Alaska
- 1.5 12 km W of Salcha, Alaska
- 1.3 33 km S of South Van Horn, 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
- 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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