Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change
M 2.5ml
Earthquake near Ridgeway, AK
Yes. A magnitude 2.5 earthquake was recorded 16 km (10 mi) NNE of Ridgeway, AK, at 6:24 am AKDT on 13 October 2026 (14:24 UTC), 56 km deep. No felt reports to USGS yet. The magnitude and location are an automatic first estimate and may change.
USGS: 15 km NNE of Ridgeway, Alaska
85 km (53 mi) SW of Anchorage, AK
- When
- 6:24 am AKDT on 13 October 2026 ()
- Where
- 16 km (10 mi) NNE of Ridgeway, AK · earthquakes near Ridgeway
- Magnitude
- M 2.5 (ml)
- Depth
- 56 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Kenai Peninsula Borough, 80 km WSW
- Status
- Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2 hours ago
This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.
At this magnitude and depth it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. In Ridgeway, 16 km away, the estimate is intensity II (weak). Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.
Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Nikiski, Sterling, Kenai, Soldotna, Funny River.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 170 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 2.5 about 170 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 4.8 on 2022-07-12 — about 2,800 times the energy of this one.
Before 2016, the USGS record lists 10 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:
- 6.8 Southern Alaska · 48 km N of this epicentre
- 6.8 24 km ENE of Sterling, Alaska · 32 km E of this epicentre
- 6.7 6 km WNW of Nikiski, Alaska · 23 km WNW of this epicentre
- 6.4 19 km SSE of Tyonek, Alaska · 26 km N of this epicentre
- 5.7 19 km NNW of Nikiski, Alaska · 30 km NW 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 60.6630, -150.9850. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK | 80 km (50 mi) | WSW | earthquakes near Kenai Peninsula Borough |
| Anchorage Municipality, AK | 108 km (67 mi) | ENE | earthquakes near Anchorage Municipality |
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.
Revisions
USGS refines a solution as more stations report. Every change we have seen is listed here.
| What changed | From | To | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| location | 16 km NNE of Ridgeway, Alaska | 15 km NNE of Ridgeway, Alaska | |
| longitude | -150.99 | -150.99 | |
| latitude | 60.67 | 60.66 | |
| depth | 56.7 | 55.5 | |
| magnitude | 2.4 | 2.5 | |
| magnitude | 2.5 | 2.4 |
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
QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.