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M2.9 earthquake 73 km WSW of False Pass, Alaska
Sunday, February 25, 2024, 12:56:09 UTC · 54.674°N, 164.517°W
A magnitude 2.9 earthquake struck 73 km WSW of False Pass, Alaska on Sunday, February 25, 2024, 12:56:09 UTC, at a depth of 116.3 km (intermediate).
- Magnitude
- 2.9
- Minor · ml
- Depth
- 116 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 earthquake
In context
How big was it, and why here?
Energy released
338 kg of TNT
That is about 1/44,601 of the Hiroshima bomb. A magnitude 5.0 releases about 1,413 times more energy.
Tectonic setting
186 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
116 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
No “Did You Feel It?” reports have been published for this event yet. If you felt it, you can add your report on the USGS website.
I felt it — report to USGS ↗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 has not published any M2.5+ earthquake within 50 km in the 30 days after this event.
Regional history
Past M5+ earthquakes within 300 km
USGS lists 425 M5.0+ earthquakes within 300 km before this one (catalog from 1900; older records are less complete). The strongest:
- 8.6The 1946 Unimak Island, Alaska EarthquakeApril 1, 1946 · 171 km SE of this epicenter
- 7.881 km E of Nikolski, AlaskaJuly 2, 1965 · 277 km SW of this epicenter
- 7.454 km SE of Sand Point, AlaskaMay 31, 1917 · 299 km E of this epicenter
- 7.22023 Sand Point, Alaska EarthquakeJuly 16, 2023 · 244 km E of this epicenter
- 7.190 km SE of King Cove, AlaskaMay 14, 1948 · 216 km E of this epicenter
- 7.139 km S of Akutan, AlaskaMarch 22, 1957 · 129 km SW of this epicenter
- 7.071 km SE of King Cove, AlaskaMay 30, 1991 · 188 km E of this epicenter
- 7.0203 km SSE of Unalaska, AlaskaAugust 22, 1940 · 287 km S of this epicenter
History · NOAA
Deadliest earthquakes in this area
NOAA’s significant-earthquake database lists 10 damaging, deadly or tsunami-generating earthquakes within 300 km of this epicenter since 1700, which together caused about 169 recorded deaths. The most severe:
- 1946M8.6
Unimak Island
1 Apr 1946 · 171 km away · intensity VI
168 deaths$26 million damagetsunami
- 2023M7.2
Alaska Peninsula
16 Jul 2023 · 243 km away · intensity VI
1 deathtsunami
- 1965M6.5
Aleutian Islands: Fox Islands
2 Jul 1965 · 270 km away
Limited damage (under $1M)tsunami
- 1788M8.0
Alaska Peninsula
6 Aug 1788 · 228 km away
tsunami
- 1917M7.9
Alaska Peninsula
31 May 1917 · 296 km away · intensity V
- 1948M7.5
Alaska Peninsula
14 May 1948 · 227 km away
NOAA NCEI Global Significant Earthquake Database. Historical figures are estimates; older records are incomplete.