189 km S of Adak, Alaska

Yes. A magnitude 2.9 earthquake was recorded 189 km S of Adak, Alaska at 00:36 UTC on 2024-03-11, 17 km deep.

2024-03-11 00:36 UTC · 17 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: 2024-03-11 00:36 UTC
Magnitude: M 2.9 (ml)
Depth: 17 km below the surface
Felt: no reports yet
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 910 days ago · we first saw it 910 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, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 27 km (17 mi) from the epicentre. 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 5.4 on 2019-09-09 — about 5,600 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 16 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

6.5 184 km SSW of Adak, Alaska · 46 km WNW of this epicentre Aug 15, 2007
6.4 146 km S of Adak, Alaska · 44 km N of this epicentre Mar 10, 1957
6.2 204 km S of Adak, Alaska · 19 km SE of this epicentre Dec 9, 1918
6.1 198 km S of Adak, Alaska · 10 km SSE of this epicentre May 22, 1957
6.1 189 km S of Adak, Alaska · 6 km WNW of this epicentre Jul 3, 1960

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

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

3.1 222 km S of Adak, Alaska 20:58 UTC
2.6 200 km S of Adak, Alaska 09:24 UTC
3.2 176 km S of Adak, Alaska 16:45 UTC
2.2 156 km S of Adak, Alaska 00:31 UTC
2.8 153 km S of Adak, Alaska 20:22 UTC
2.7 156 km S of Adak, Alaska 02:26 UTC
2.8 149 km S of Adak, Alaska 23:41 UTC
2.7 143 km S of Adak, Alaska 03:25 UTC
2.9 191 km S of Adak, Alaska 19:37 UTC
2.6 171 km S of Adak, Alaska 10:08 UTC
2.7 172 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 08:43 UTC
2.4 185 km S of Adak, Alaska 08:24 UTC
2.5 182 km S of Adak, Alaska 01:43 UTC
2.7 165 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 17:08 UTC
1.9 167 km S of Adak, Alaska 17:40 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 10:19 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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