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M 4.2mw

50 km N of Chase, Alaska

· 80 km deep · released about 30 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Matanuska-Susitna Borough 74 kmDenali Borough 87 km
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When
Magnitude
M 4.2 (mw)
Depth
80 km below the surface
Felt
42 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, 74 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

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

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 42 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 62.8983, -149.9213. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK 74 km (46 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Matanuska-Susitna Borough
Denali Borough, AK 87 km (54 mi) S of here earthquakes near Denali Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 57 km SSW of Cantwell, Alaska
  2. 2.0 54 km N of Chase, Alaska
  3. 1.9 43 km NNE of Chase, Alaska
  4. 1.7 76 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska
  5. 1.6 38 km NE of Chase, Alaska
  6. 1.5 71 km NNE of Petersville, Alaska
  7. 1.9 43 km NNE of Petersville, Alaska
  8. 1.5 36 km NNE of Chase, Alaska
  9. 1.5 43 km NNE of Chase, Alaska
  10. 1.6 16 km ENE of Chase, Alaska
  11. 1.6 54 km NNE of Chase, Alaska
  12. 1.5 51 km N of Chase, Alaska
  13. 1.6 74 km NNE of Petersville, Alaska
  14. 1.7 44 km NNE of Chase, Alaska
  15. 1.8 43 km WSW of Cantwell, 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 4.6 on 2016-04-26 — it released about 4 times the energy of this one.

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

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