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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

178 km W of Adak, Alaska

Yes. A magnitude 1.6 earthquake was recorded 178 km W of Adak, Alaska at 17:31 UTC on 2024-06-28, 12 km deep.

· 12 km deep · released about 6.6 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 868 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

At this magnitude and depth it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. 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.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 6.6 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.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,600,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 140× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.6 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 5.1 on 2022-01-13 — about 200,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 76 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

  1. 7.2 162 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 40 km SE of this epicentre
  2. 7.2 207 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 44 km SSW of this epicentre
  3. 6.9 203 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 43 km SSW of this epicentre
  4. 6.8 177 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 46 km SSE of this epicentre
  5. 6.7 205 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 31 km SW 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 51.7098, -179.2033. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.4 181 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  2. 2.6 161 km W of Adak, Alaska
  3. 2.7 207 km W of Adak, Alaska
  4. 1.9 211 km W of Adak, Alaska
  5. 2.1 182 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  6. 1.7 143 km W of Adak, Alaska
  7. 1.6 219 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  8. 1.6 184 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  9. 1.7 157 km W of Adak, Alaska
  10. 1.9 192 km W of Adak, Alaska
  11. 1.8 167 km W of Adak, Alaska
  12. 3.5 186 km W of Adak, Alaska
  13. 2.0 195 km W of Adak, Alaska
  14. 2.5 207 km W of Adak, Alaska
  15. 2.2 190 km WSW of Adak, 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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