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M 4.7ml

19 km N of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska

· 17 km deep · released about 170 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.7 (ml)
Depth
17 km below the surface
Felt
42 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, 52 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1138 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 170 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 1,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 45× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.7 about 170 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 350× 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 65.1780, -150.5718. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, AK 52 km (32 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area

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. 1.8 27 km NNW of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  2. 1.6 30 km SSW of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  3. 2.1 31 km SW of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  4. 1.8 16 km SE of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  5. 2.8 21 km SSE of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  6. 1.7 23 km S of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  7. 1.6 18 km SSE of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  8. 2.0 9 km WSW of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  9. 2.2 22 km ENE of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  10. 1.9 18 km SE of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  11. 1.8 17 km ESE of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  12. 2.2 17 km NNE of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  13. 1.9 28 km SSW of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  14. 2.2 11 km SSW of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  15. 2.2 20 km SSW of Manley Hot Springs, 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 4.2 on 2016-05-18.

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

On USGS

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