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M 2.8ml

225 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska

· 10 km deep · released about 480 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.8 (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 513 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 53.0019, -162.0238. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 5.0 244 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska
  2. 3.5 210 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska
  3. 2.8 186 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska
  4. 2.7 219 km S of King Cove, Alaska
  5. 2.8 233 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska
  6. 3.5 206 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska
  7. 2.9 204 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska
  8. 3.5 225 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska
  9. 3.2 227 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska
  10. 2.7 217 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska
  11. 3.1 236 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska
  12. 2.6 219 km S of King Cove, Alaska
  13. 2.8 232 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska
  14. 2.8 212 km S of King Cove, Alaska
  15. 3.0 219 km SSE of King Cove, 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 2019-10-26 — it released about 250 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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