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M 2.1ml

124 km ESE of McCarthy, Alaska

· 12 km deep · released about 43 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 142 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 43 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 22× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 43 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 61.2140, -140.6450. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 157 km ESE of McCarthy, Alaska
  2. 1.8 146 km NNW of Yakutat, Alaska
  3. 1.9 96 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  4. 1.6 159 km ESE of McCarthy, Alaska
  5. 2.0 100 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  6. 1.7 123 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  7. 2.4 115 km ESE of McCarthy, Alaska
  8. 2.3 114 km ESE of McCarthy, Alaska
  9. 1.5 156 km ESE of McCarthy, Alaska
  10. 2.4 123 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  11. 1.8 124 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  12. 1.7 123 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  13. 1.6 122 km ESE of McCarthy, Alaska
  14. 1.6 144 km E of McCarthy, Alaska
  15. 1.9 159 km ESE of McCarthy, 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 4.9 on 2021-05-09 — it released about 16,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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