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M 2.8ml

257 km ESE of Chiniak, Alaska

· 22 km deep · released about 480 lb of TNT

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

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1955 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 56.4615, -148.5992. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.5 278 km ESE of Chiniak, Alaska
  2. 3.1 261 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  3. 3.4 270 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  4. 3.1 268 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  5. 3.1 254 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  6. 3.3 252 km ESE of Chiniak, Alaska
  7. 2.9 237 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  8. 3.0 250 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  9. 3.1 272 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  10. 3.0 273 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  11. 2.9 276 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  12. 2.4 267 km ESE of Chiniak, Alaska
  13. 2.2 243 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  14. 4.2 258 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  15. 2.6 276 km ESE of Chiniak, 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 5.5 on 2018-05-08 — it released about 11,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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