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M 5.0ml

Southern Alaska

· 38 km deep · released about 480 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 5.0 (ml)
Depth
38 km below the surface
Felt
172 reports · strongest reported intensity VIII
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Tsunami
USGS flagged this event for tsunami evaluation. Follow tsunami.gov for official messages.
Nearest
Anchorage Municipality, 48 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1137 days ago

This was a moderate earthquake. Shaking at this size can damage poorly built structures close to the epicentre. 172 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 480 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 6.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 5.0 about 480 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1,000× 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 61.3840, -150.0795. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Anchorage Municipality, AK 48 km (30 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Anchorage Municipality
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK 103 km (64 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Matanuska-Susitna Borough
Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK 166 km (103 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Kenai Peninsula Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 5 km NNW of Point MacKenzie, Alaska
  2. 2.3 5 km S of Big Lake, Alaska
  3. 3.8 5 km SW of Point MacKenzie, Alaska
  4. 3.0 5 km NNW of Point MacKenzie, Alaska
  5. 2.7 6 km NW of Point MacKenzie, Alaska
  6. 2.3 7 km WNW of Knik, Alaska
  7. 1.5 8 km NW of Point MacKenzie, Alaska
  8. 2.2 6 km NW of Point MacKenzie, Alaska
  9. 2.5 9 km S of Big Lake, Alaska
  10. 2.1 7 km NW of Point MacKenzie, Alaska
  11. 2.7 5 km NW of Point MacKenzie, Alaska
  12. 2.1 7 km NNW of Point MacKenzie, Alaska
  13. 2.2 5 km S of Big Lake, Alaska
  14. 3.6 8 km NW of Point MacKenzie, Alaska
  15. 2.2 8 km S of Big Lake, 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 7.1 on 2018-11-30 — it released about 1,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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