48 km WNW of Nanwalek, Alaska

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 950 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 950 lb of TNT

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 59.5135, -152.7198. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 1.6 60 km WSW of Anchor Point, Alaska 02:37 UTC
2. 1.9 53 km WSW of Anchor Point, Alaska 19:12 UTC
3. 1.8 65 km WNW of Nanwalek, Alaska 17:23 UTC
4. 2.1 26 km W of Anchor Point, Alaska 15:12 UTC
5. 1.8 60 km E of Pedro Bay, Alaska 07:10 UTC
6. 1.7 68 km SE of Pedro Bay, Alaska 18:25 UTC
7. 1.5 75 km WSW of Nanwalek, Alaska 22:24 UTC
8. 1.6 29 km WNW of Anchor Point, Alaska 18:58 UTC
9. 1.9 33 km SW of Nanwalek, Alaska 13:53 UTC
10. 1.5 60 km WSW of Anchor Point, Alaska 10:57 UTC
11. 2.6 63 km W of Anchor Point, Alaska 11:59 UTC
12. 1.5 59 km W of Nanwalek, Alaska 00:42 UTC
13. 1.7 52 km WNW of Nanwalek, Alaska 13:23 UTC
14. 2.6 38 km W of Nanwalek, Alaska 08:56 UTC
15. 4.0 38 km WSW of Nanwalek, Alaska 19:33 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 14:10 UTC. 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 5.6 on 2017-03-02 — it released about 7,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.