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M 4.9mw

54 km SSE of Denali National Park, Alaska

· 12 km deep · released about 340 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.9 (mw)
Depth
12 km below the surface
Felt
48 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity VI (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Denali Borough, 84 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1147 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 48 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 340 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 500× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 22× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.9 about 340 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 710× 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 63.1225, -151.1656. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Denali Borough, AK 84 km (52 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Denali Borough
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK 128 km (79 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Matanuska-Susitna Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 45 km N of Petersville, Alaska
  2. 2.0 37 km NNW of Petersville, Alaska
  3. 1.7 45 km SSE of Denali National Park, Alaska
  4. 1.5 48 km SSE of Denali National Park, Alaska
  5. 2.0 63 km N of Petersville, Alaska
  6. 1.8 62 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska
  7. 3.5 63 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska
  8. 2.0 49 km N of Petersville, Alaska
  9. 3.1 Central Alaska
  10. 1.8 38 km NNW of Petersville, Alaska
  11. 1.5 51 km SSE of Denali National Park, Alaska
  12. 2.1 68 km N of Petersville, Alaska
  13. 1.6 56 km N of Petersville, Alaska
  14. 2.3 51 km NNW of Petersville, Alaska
  15. 1.8 61 km SE of Denali National Park, 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 5.3 on 2016-05-15 — it released about 4 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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