225 km W of Adak, Alaska

Yes. A magnitude 2.9 earthquake was recorded 225 km W of Adak, Alaska at 21:45 UTC on 2023-03-12, 99 km deep.

2023-03-12 21:45 UTC · 99 km deep · released about 680 lb of TNT

Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.

When: 2023-03-12 21:45 UTC
Magnitude: M 2.9 (ml)
Depth: 99 km below the surface
Felt: no reports yet
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 1274 days ago · we first saw it 1274 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

At this magnitude and depth it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

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.

Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 22,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16,000× the energy of this one
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.4× the energy of this one
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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 5.2 on 2016-11-23 — about 2,800 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 30 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

6.7 237 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 49 km S of this epicentre Oct 13, 1926
6.7 205 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 36 km SE of this epicentre Oct 13, 1926
6.7 227 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 42 km S of this epicentre Jun 2, 1955
6.7 221 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 32 km SSE of this epicentre Jun 20, 1955
6.6 193 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 48 km SE of this epicentre Apr 17, 1954

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

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Aftershocks so far

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

1.5 197 km W of Adak, Alaska 11:07 UTC
2.1 211 km W of Adak, Alaska 22:08 UTC
2.1 192 km WSW of Adak, Alaska 04:54 UTC
2.7 192 km W of Adak, Alaska 13:14 UTC
1.9 238 km WSW of Adak, Alaska 03:10 UTC
2.2 224 km W of Adak, Alaska 22:41 UTC
2.0 235 km WSW of Adak, Alaska 04:42 UTC
1.5 238 km WSW of Adak, Alaska 21:34 UTC
1.5 235 km WSW of Adak, Alaska 20:11 UTC
1.8 208 km W of Adak, Alaska 18:52 UTC
2.1 Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska 16:28 UTC
2.0 210 km W of Adak, Alaska 04:11 UTC
1.9 198 km W of Adak, Alaska 02:21 UTC
2.7 198 km W of Adak, Alaska 07:07 UTC
2.2 199 km WSW of Adak, Alaska 21:40 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 11:06 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
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ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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