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M 2.1ml

109 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska

· 35 km deep · released about 43 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
35 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 992 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 43 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 22× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 43 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 53.9181, -163.9479. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 103 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska
  2. 3.1 115 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska
  3. 2.4 105 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska
  4. 2.9 100 km E of Akutan, Alaska
  5. 3.2 105 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska
  6. 2.5 119 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska
  7. 2.8 114 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska
  8. 2.4 126 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska
  9. 3.0 104 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska
  10. 3.8 140 km S of False Pass, Alaska
  11. 2.5 81 km S of False Pass, Alaska
  12. 2.3 79 km S of False Pass, Alaska
  13. 2.6 111 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska
  14. 2.2 87 km S of False Pass, Alaska
  15. 2.8 107 km S of False Pass, 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 5.1 on 2021-01-11 — 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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