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Magnitude2.6

Reviewed by USGSAlaska26y ago

M2.6 earthquake 75 km W of Karluk, Alaska

Saturday, May 6, 2000, 19:49:24 UTC · 57.630°N, 155.715°W

A magnitude 2.6 earthquake struck 75 km W of Karluk, Alaska on Saturday, May 6, 2000, 19:49:24 UTC, at a depth of 88.3 km (intermediate).

Magnitude
2.6
Minor · ml
Depth
88 km
Intermediate
Felt reports
0
Did You Feel It?
Est. shaking
—
No ShakeMap
PAGER alert
None
Not issued
Tsunami
No flag
USGS feed

Outlined circle: this earthquakeDashed circle: 50 km aftershock search area

In context

How big was it, and why here?

Energy released

120 kg of TNT

That is about 1/125,702 of the Hiroshima bomb. A magnitude 5.0 releases about 3,981 times more energy.

Tectonic setting

268 km

from the nearest mapped plate boundary, between the North American and Pacific plates. Earthquakes this far from a boundary happen on faults inside a plate, often less frequently but sometimes strongly.

Depth: intermediate

88 km

Intermediate-depth earthquakes usually break inside a plate that is sinking into the mantle. Shaking spreads over a wide area but is gentler at the epicenter than a shallow quake of the same size.

Did You Feel It?

Where it was felt

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USGS PAGER estimate

Who was exposed to shaking

USGS publishes PAGER impact estimates for significant earthquakes, usually within an hour. No PAGER estimate is available for this event.

After the main event

Aftershocks within 50 km

USGS lists 2 M2.5+ earthquakes within 50 km in the following 30 days; the largest was M3.6 on May 9, 2000. Most nearby activity right after a large earthquake is aftershocks, which usually become less frequent over days and weeks.

M31h6h1d3d7d14d30dMainshock M2.6
Time after the mainshock on a logarithmic scale (first hours stretched), magnitude on the vertical axis. M2.5+ events from USGS.
  1. 2.929 km WNW of Karluk, Alaska26y ago · 49 km E of this epicenter
  2. 3.677 km W of Karluk, Alaska26y ago · 3 km SW of this epicenter

Regional history

Past M5+ earthquakes within 300 km

USGS lists 302 M5.0+ earthquakes within 300 km before this one (catalog from 1900; older records are less complete). The strongest:

  1. 7.9Kodiak Island region, AlaskaOctober 9, 1900 · 283 km E of this epicenter
  2. 7.14 km ENE of Karluk, AlaskaNovember 7, 1912 · 79 km E of this epicenter
  3. 7.0113 km ESE of Chignik, AlaskaMay 4, 1923 · 209 km S of this epicenter
  4. 7.026 km SSE of Karluk, AlaskaDecember 6, 1999 · 88 km E of this epicenter
  5. 7.0164 km SE of Chignik, AlaskaSeptember 4, 1989 · 260 km S of this epicenter
  6. 6.9105 km ESE of Perryville, AlaskaNovember 17, 1938 · 276 km SW of this epicenter
  7. 6.9143 km ESE of Chignik, AlaskaFebruary 13, 1951 · 206 km S of this epicenter

History · NOAA

Deadliest earthquakes in this area

NOAA’s significant-earthquake database lists 11 damaging, deadly or tsunami-generating earthquakes within 300 km of this epicenter since 1700. The most severe:

  1. 1900M8.3

    Kodiak Island

    9 Oct 1900 · 147 km away · intensity VIII

    Limited damage (under $1M)

  2. 1788M8.0

    Unga Island

    21 Jul 1788 · 177 km away · intensity VII

    Limited damage (under $1M)tsunami

  3. 1970M6.0

    Andreanof Islands

    11 Mar 1970 · 109 km away · intensity V

    Limited damage (under $1M)tsunami

  4. 1792

    Kodiak Island

    1792 · 234 km away · intensity VII

    Limited damage (under $1M)tsunami

  5. 1938M8.2

    Alaska

    10 Nov 1938 · 289 km away · intensity VI

    tsunami

  6. 1906M7.6

    Aleutian Islands

    23 Dec 1906 · 139 km away

NOAA NCEI Global Significant Earthquake Database. Historical figures are estimates; older records are incomplete.

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