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M 4.2ml

8 km S of Ambler, Alaska

· 16 km deep · released about 30 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.2 (ml)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
4 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Northwest Arctic Borough, 95 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1151 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 4 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 30 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 250× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.2 about 30 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 63× more

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 67.0109, -157.8336. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Northwest Arctic Borough, AK 95 km (59 mi) E of here earthquakes near Northwest Arctic Borough

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 25 km NE of Ambler, Alaska
  2. 1.5 40 km NNW of Ambler, Alaska
  3. 1.6 northern Alaska
  4. 2.6 23 km W of Ambler, Alaska
  5. 1.6 41 km NNW of Ambler, Alaska
  6. 1.8 41 km N of Ambler, Alaska
  7. 1.6 41 km N of Ambler, Alaska
  8. 1.9 35 km NNW of Ambler, Alaska
  9. 1.6 19 km SSE of Ambler, Alaska
  10. 1.8 18 km SE of Ambler, Alaska
  11. 1.7 18 km SE of Ambler, Alaska
  12. 1.7 northern Alaska
  13. 1.9 16 km NW of Shungnak, Alaska
  14. 2.0 14 km NW of Shungnak, Alaska
  15. 2.5 32 km NNW of Ambler, 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.

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