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M 2.8ml

180 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska

· 35 km deep · released about 480 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.8 (ml)
Depth
35 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1138 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 480 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 32,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.8 about 480 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.

Where

Epicentre 51.7840, -170.7222. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.7 180 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  2. 3.2 218 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  3. 3.7 198 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  4. 3.8 149 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  5. 3.0 186 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  6. 4.1 208 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  7. 3.6 185 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  8. 3.6 175 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  9. 3.9 195 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  10. 3.1 197 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  11. 3.6 176 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska
  12. 3.1 192 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  13. 3.1 131 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  14. 3.2 134 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  15. 4.1 217 km ESE of Atka, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 5.9 on 2018-08-25 — it released about 45,000 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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