41 km WNW of Beluga, Alaska

A magnitude -0.1 earthquake was recorded 41 km WNW of Beluga, Alaska at 22:59 UTC on 2026-09-30. This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 0.019 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 0.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 790,000,000× the energy of this one
2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 560,000,000× the energy of this one
3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 50,000× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M -0.1 about 0.019 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 5.2 on 2017-05-30 — about 99,000,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 14 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

1. 6.8 Southern Alaska · 42 km ESE of this epicentre Apr 27, 1933
2. 6.8 4 km NE of Beluga, Alaska · 45 km E of this epicentre Oct 23, 1936
3. 6.0 Southern Alaska · 9 km E of this epicentre Jun 13, 1933
4. 5.8 17 km NW of Beluga, Alaska · 26 km E of this epicentre Jun 12, 1933
5. 5.8 27 km N of Beluga, Alaska · 47 km ENE of this epicentre Jun 19, 1933

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 61.2305, -151.8402. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1. -0.4 58 km WNW of Beluga, Alaska 00:39 UTC
2. 1.9 43 km SW of Skwentna, Alaska 13:00 UTC
3. 0.8 60 km W of Tyonek, Alaska 01:15 UTC
4. -0.2 64 km W of Tyonek, Alaska 00:00 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 01:40 UTC. 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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