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M 3.2ml

43 km SE of Knik River, Alaska

· 20 km deep · released about 1,900 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.2 (ml)
Depth
20 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Anchorage Municipality, 46 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1145 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,900 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,900 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2× 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 61.1512, -148.4243. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Anchorage Municipality, AK 46 km (29 mi) E of here earthquakes near Anchorage Municipality
Chugach Census Area, AK 141 km (88 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Chugach Census Area

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 28 km ENE of Whittier, Alaska
  2. 1.8 28 km SSE of Chickaloon, Alaska
  3. 1.9 31 km SE of Knik River, Alaska
  4. 2.4 13 km ESE of Lazy Mountain, Alaska
  5. 1.8 20 km N of Whittier, Alaska
  6. 1.5 16 km ESE of Lazy Mountain, Alaska
  7. 1.9 21 km ENE of Girdwood, Alaska
  8. 1.6 26 km SSE of Chickaloon, Alaska
  9. 2.9 17 km NNE of Whittier, Alaska
  10. 2.1 36 km SSW of Glacier View, Alaska
  11. 2.2 35 km SE of Chickaloon, Alaska
  12. 1.9 35 km SE of Chickaloon, Alaska
  13. 2.0 36 km SSE of Chickaloon, Alaska
  14. 1.5 30 km NE of Whittier, Alaska
  15. 2.1 31 km NE of Whittier, 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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