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M 2.7ml

48 km SSW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska

· 181 km deep · released about 340 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.7 (ml)
Depth
181 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Aleutians East Borough, 51 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 568 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 340 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 45,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 32,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 340 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 55.5895, -161.4617. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aleutians East Borough, AK 51 km (32 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Aleutians East 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. 2.3 35 km WSW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  2. 1.9 16 km SW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  3. 1.8 6 km SSE of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  4. 1.8 62 km NE of King Cove, Alaska
  5. 2.8 16 km SW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  6. 1.9 51 km WSW of Sand Point, Alaska
  7. 1.7 39 km W of Sand Point, Alaska
  8. 2.0 37 km WSW of Sand Point, Alaska
  9. 1.9 53 km SW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  10. 2.1 37 km SSW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  11. 1.6 47 km SW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  12. 2.4 28 km WSW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  13. 2.2 45 km SSW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  14. 2.9 48 km S of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  15. 2.8 59 km SW of Nelson Lagoon, 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 4.5 on 2020-05-02 — it released about 500 times the energy of this one.

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

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