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M 0.7ml

Earthquake near Fairbanks, AK

USGS: 12 km SSW of South Van Horn, Alaska

6:05 pm AKDT, Oct 1, 2026 · · 12 km deep · released about 0.34 lb of TNT

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When
6:05 pm AKDT on 1 October 2026 ()
Where
17 km (10 mi) SSW of Fairbanks, AK · earthquakes near Fairbanks
Magnitude
M 0.7 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Fairbanks North Star Borough, 65 km E
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 23 hours ago

A magnitude 0.7 earthquake was recorded 17 km (10 mi) SSW of Fairbanks, AK, at 6:05 pm AKDT on 1 October 2026 (02:05 UTC). This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: College, Ester, Badger, Farmers Loop, North Pole.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 0.34 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 1.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 45,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 32,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2,800× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 0.7 about 0.34 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 350,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 5 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km:

  1. 5.7 15 km SSW of Badger, Alaska · 9 km ESE of this epicentre
  2. 5.5 3 km ESE of Farmers Loop, Alaska · 25 km NNE of this epicentre
  3. 5.5 10 km SSW of Badger, Alaska · 12 km E of this epicentre
  4. 5.3 6 km NW of Farmers Loop, Alaska · 28 km N of this epicentre
  5. 5.1 5 km NNW of Badger, Alaska · 20 km NE 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, -147.8630. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK 65 km (40 mi) E earthquakes near Fairbanks North Star Borough
Denali Borough, AK 154 km (96 mi) SW earthquakes near Denali Borough

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.4 7 km ENE of Fox, Alaska
  2. 1.0 8 km ENE of Badger, 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

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