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M 2.7ml

40 km NNW of False Pass, Alaska

· 143 km deep · released about 340 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.7 (ml)
Depth
143 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Aleutians East Borough, 100 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1265 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 340 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 45,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 32,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 340 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 55.2078, -163.5697. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aleutians East Borough, AK 100 km (62 mi) W of here earthquakes near Aleutians East Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 21 km WSW of False Pass, Alaska
  2. 2.7 28 km WNW of False Pass, Alaska
  3. 2.0 26 km NW of Cold Bay, Alaska
  4. 1.6 27 km NE of False Pass, Alaska
  5. 2.0 8 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska
  6. 3.0 26 km NNW of False Pass, Alaska
  7. 2.9 10 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska
  8. 4.0 77 km NNW of False Pass, Alaska
  9. 4.3 15 km WNW of False Pass, Alaska
  10. 2.6 17 km NNE of False Pass, Alaska
  11. 2.2 4 km N of False Pass, Alaska
  12. 2.6 23 km NE of False Pass, Alaska
  13. 2.7 9 km S of False Pass, Alaska
  14. 2.9 28 km W of Cold Bay, Alaska
  15. 1.9 23 km NE of False Pass, 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 4.6 on 2018-07-02 — it released about 710 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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