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M 1.7ml

2 km SE of South Van Horn, Alaska

· 16 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Fairbanks North Star Borough, 61 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 100 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 64.7950, -147.7420. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK 61 km (38 mi) WNW 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

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

  1. 2.1 11 km SW of South Van Horn, Alaska
  2. 1.8 4 km NW of Fox, Alaska
  3. 1.5 8 km ENE of Badger, Alaska
  4. 0.9 8 km ENE of Fox, Alaska
  5. 1.3 6 km E of Fox, Alaska
  6. 1.0 7 km S of South Van Horn, Alaska
  7. 1.5 23 km WSW of Salcha, Alaska
  8. 1.4 11 km ENE of Fox, Alaska
  9. 1.5 13 km S of South Van Horn, Alaska
  10. 2.7 20 km S of South Van Horn, Alaska
  11. 1.5 3 km ESE of Badger, Alaska
  12. 2.4 7 km ENE of Fox, Alaska
  13. 2.0 14 km SSW of Ester, Alaska
  14. 1.6 9 km SSW of South Van Horn, Alaska
  15. 1.5 5 km WNW of Farmers Loop, 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 4.4 on 2022-12-07 — it released about 11,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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