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M 3.1ml

83 km ESE of King Salmon, Alaska

· 120 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Lake and Peninsula Borough 78 kmBristol Bay Borough 103 kmKodiak Island Borough 118 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 3.1 (ml)
Depth
120 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lake and Peninsula Borough, 78 km WSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1955 days ago

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 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× 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 58.4855, -155.2877. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lake and Peninsula Borough, AK 78 km (48 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Lake and Peninsula Borough
Bristol Bay Borough, AK 103 km (64 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Bristol Bay Borough
Kodiak Island Borough, AK 118 km (74 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Kodiak Island 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. 1.6 87 km ESE of King Salmon, Alaska
  2. 1.7 93 km ESE of King Salmon, Alaska
  3. 1.8 100 km NNW of Karluk, Alaska
  4. 1.9 84 km NW of Karluk, Alaska
  5. 1.5 86 km NNW of Karluk, Alaska
  6. 1.5 54 km ESE of King Salmon, Alaska
  7. 1.6 82 km NW of Karluk, Alaska
  8. 1.5 59 km ESE of King Salmon, Alaska
  9. 1.7 67 km S of Kokhanok, Alaska
  10. 1.9 87 km NNW of Karluk, Alaska
  11. 2.3 84 km SSE of Igiugig, Alaska
  12. 2.0 81 km NNW of Karluk, Alaska
  13. 1.8 63 km ESE of King Salmon, Alaska
  14. 1.6 101 km NNW of Karluk, Alaska
  15. 1.6 84 km NNW of Karluk, AK

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 5.2 on 2019-01-22 — it released about 1,400 times the energy of this one.

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

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