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M 2.9ml

210 km SSE of Akutan, Alaska

· 10 km deep · released about 680 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.9 (ml)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1044 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 680 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 22,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 680 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 52.5694, -164.0115. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.0 193 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  2. 2.8 198 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  3. 2.6 174 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  4. 2.9 221 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  5. 2.9 227 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  6. 2.8 183 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  7. 2.8 229 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  8. 2.8 215 km SSE of Akutan, Alaska
  9. 3.0 210 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  10. 3.0 219 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  11. 2.0 208 km SSE of Akutan, Alaska
  12. 3.2 209 km SSE of Akutan, Alaska
  13. 3.9 213 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  14. 2.6 231 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  15. 2.9 198 km SE of Akutan, 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 4.4 on 2016-07-19 — it released about 180 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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