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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.9ml

169 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska

· 26 km deep · released about 680 lb of TNT

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

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2363 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 52.1006, -170.9530. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.6 136 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  2. 3.3 188 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  3. 3.1 135 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  4. 3.5 160 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  5. 3.3 153 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  6. 2.7 178 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska
  7. 3.2 171 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  8. 4.4 174 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  9. 4.0 158 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  10. 4.2 127 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska
  11. 3.7 178 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  12. 3.6 169 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska
  13. 4.2 172 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  14. 3.1 149 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska
  15. 3.2 132 km WSW of Nikolski, 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 5.9 on 2018-08-25 — it released about 32,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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