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M 2.4ml

155 km S of Sand Point, Alaska

· 28 km deep · released about 120 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.4 (ml)
Depth
28 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1920 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 120 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 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 53.9416, -160.6792. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.2 118 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska
  2. 2.9 116 km SE of King Cove, Alaska
  3. 4.2 116 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska
  4. 2.0 121 km S of Sand Point, Alaska
  5. 1.9 114 km S of Sand Point, Alaska
  6. 2.7 115 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska
  7. 1.5 117 km S of Sand Point, Alaska
  8. 2.8 111 km S of Sand Point, Alaska
  9. 2.9 123 km S of Sand Point, Alaska
  10. 1.8 119 km S of Sand Point, Alaska
  11. 1.9 128 km S of Sand Point, Alaska
  12. 1.6 118 km S of Sand Point, Alaska
  13. 2.1 126 km S of Sand Point, Alaska
  14. 3.9 118 km S of Sand Point, Alaska
  15. 1.9 118 km S of Sand Point, 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 5.7 on 2017-05-28 — it released about 89,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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