Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change
M 1.6ml
Earthquake near Anchorage, AK
USGS: 14 km WSW of Anchorage, Alaska
15 km (9 mi) WSW of Anchorage, AK
- When
- 11:03 am AKDT on 2 October 2026 ()
- Where
- 15 km (9 mi) WSW of Anchorage, AK · earthquakes near Anchorage
- Magnitude
- M 1.6 (ml)
- Depth
- 48 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Anchorage Municipality, 47 km E
- Status
- Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 6 hours ago
A magnitude 1.6 earthquake was recorded 15 km (9 mi) WSW of Anchorage, AK, at 11:03 am AKDT on 2 October 2026 (19:03 UTC). This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.
Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Elmendorf Air Force Base.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 7.1 on 2018-11-30 — about 180,000,000 times the energy of this one.
Before 2016, the USGS record lists 22 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:
- 6.8 4 km NE of Beluga, Alaska · 45 km W of this epicentre
- 5.8 20 km ENE of Beluga, Alaska · 33 km W of this epicentre
- 5.6 11 km NW of Big Lake, Alaska · 43 km N of this epicentre
- 5.6 5 km N of Susitna, Alaska · 49 km NNW of this epicentre
- 5.5 2 km ENE of Eagle River, Alaska · 38 km ENE 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 61.1910, -150.1680. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anchorage Municipality, AK | 47 km (29 mi) | E | earthquakes near Anchorage Municipality |
| Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK | 125 km (77 mi) | NNE | earthquakes near Matanuska-Susitna Borough |
| Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK | 149 km (92 mi) | SW | earthquakes near Kenai Peninsula Borough |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
No further earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
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
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- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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