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M 2.6ml

134 km W of Haines Junction, Canada

· 6.3 km deep · released about 240 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.6 (ml)
Depth
6.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Yakutat City and Borough, 88 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2297 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 240 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.6 about 240 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 60.7758, -139.9746. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Yakutat City and Borough, AK 88 km (55 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Yakutat City and Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 141 km ESE of McCarthy, Alaska
  2. 1.7 136 km ESE of McCarthy, Alaska
  3. 2.6 111 km NNW of Yakutat, Alaska
  4. 2.2 105 km NNW of Yakutat, Alaska
  5. 1.6 113 km NNW of Yakutat, Alaska
  6. 3.1 108 km NNW of Yakutat, Alaska
  7. 1.8 110 km NNW of Yakutat, Alaska
  8. 1.6 111 km NNW of Yakutat, Alaska
  9. 1.5 111 km NNW of Yakutat, Alaska
  10. 2.0 109 km NNW of Yakutat, Alaska
  11. 1.9 88 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  12. 1.5 134 km W of Haines Junction, Canada
  13. 1.7 135 km W of Haines Junction, Canada
  14. 1.5 138 km ESE of McCarthy, Alaska
  15. 2.8 139 km ESE of McCarthy, 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.

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