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M 4.6ml

105 km SSE of Akhiok, Alaska

· 25 km deep · released about 120 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.6 (ml)
Depth
25 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Tsunami
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Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1140 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 120 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 1,400× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.6 about 120 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 250× 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 56.1123, -153.3455. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.6 115 km SE of Akhiok, Alaska
  2. 4.1 111 km SE of Akhiok, Alaska
  3. 2.7 112 km SE of Akhiok, Alaska
  4. 3.1 116 km SSE of Old Harbor, Alaska
  5. 1.9 118 km SSE of Akhiok, Alaska
  6. 2.1 116 km SE of Akhiok, Alaska
  7. 2.4 115 km SE of Akhiok, Alaska
  8. 2.3 136 km SSE of Akhiok, Alaska
  9. 2.2 116 km SE of Akhiok, Alaska
  10. 2.6 105 km SSE of Akhiok, Alaska
  11. 3.0 119 km SSE of Akhiok, Alaska
  12. 2.3 118 km SE of Akhiok, Alaska
  13. 2.7 116 km SSE of Akhiok, Alaska
  14. 2.5 122 km SSE of Old Harbor, Alaska
  15. 2.9 64 km SSE of Akhiok, 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 4.4 on 2017-09-05.

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

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