Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change
M 1.0ml
Earthquake near Badger, AK
USGS: 8 km ENE of Badger, Alaska
- When
- 4:08 pm AKDT on 2 October 2026 ()
- Where
- 9 km (5 mi) ENE of Badger, AK · earthquakes near Badger
- Magnitude
- M 1.0 (ml)
- Depth
- 5.0 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Fairbanks North Star Borough, 46 km ESE
- Nearest mapped fault
- Atsaksovluk fault, 20 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
- Status
- Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2 hours ago
A magnitude 1.0 earthquake was recorded 9 km (5 mi) ENE of Badger, AK, at 4:08 pm AKDT on 2 October 2026 (00:08 UTC). This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.
Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: North Pole, Fairbanks, Farmers Loop, College, Eielson Air Force Base.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 0.95 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.0 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1,000× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.0 about 0.95 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 5.3 on 2024-01-19 — about 2,800,000 times the energy of this one.
Before 2016, the USGS record lists 6 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:
- 7.1 Central Alaska · 35 km SE of this epicentre
- 5.7 15 km SSW of Badger, Alaska · 22 km SW of this epicentre
- 5.5 3 km ESE of Farmers Loop, Alaska · 14 km WNW of this epicentre
- 5.5 10 km SSW of Badger, Alaska · 18 km SW of this epicentre
- 5.3 6 km NW of Farmers Loop, Alaska · 23 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 64.8370, -147.3760. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK | 46 km (28 mi) | ESE | earthquakes near Fairbanks North Star Borough |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
1 earthquake has 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
- 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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