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M 5.3mw

14 km N of Ninilchik, Alaska

· 67 km deep · released about 1.3 kilotons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 5.3 (mw)
Depth
67 km below the surface
Felt
735 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
Tsunami
USGS flagged this event for tsunami evaluation. Follow tsunami.gov for official messages.
Nearest
Kenai Peninsula Borough, 41 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 279 days ago

This was a moderate earthquake. Shaking at this size can damage poorly built structures close to the epicentre. 735 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.3 kilotons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 6.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 130× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 5.6× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 5.3 about 1.3 kilotons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2,800× 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 60.1828, -151.6783. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK 41 km (25 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Kenai Peninsula Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 10 km NNW of Fritz Creek, Alaska
  2. 2.0 9 km W of Happy Valley, Alaska
  3. 1.6 22 km WNW of Happy Valley, Alaska
  4. 2.0 11 km ENE of Ninilchik, Alaska
  5. 2.7 23 km WNW of Anchor Point, Alaska
  6. 1.7 36 km WNW of Ninilchik, Alaska
  7. 1.9 11 km NNW of Ninilchik, Alaska
  8. 2.3 15 km W of Cohoe, Alaska
  9. 1.6 36 km W of Kalifornsky, Alaska
  10. 1.5 35 km WSW of Salamatof, Alaska
  11. 1.9 11 km NNE of Ninilchik, Alaska
  12. 1.8 27 km W of Cohoe, Alaska
  13. 1.6 9 km NNE of Fritz Creek, Alaska
  14. 1.6 10 km WSW of Kenai, Alaska
  15. 2.0 14 km NW of Ninilchik, 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 4.1 on 2017-03-15.

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

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