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M 4.6ml

92 km WSW of Elfin Cove, Alaska

· 20 km deep · released about 120 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.6 (ml)
Depth
20 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Tsunami
USGS flagged this event for tsunami evaluation. Follow tsunami.gov for official messages.
Nearest
Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, 126 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2521 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

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 57.9198, -137.8248. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, AK 126 km (78 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Hoonah-Angoon Census Area

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. 1.8 103 km W of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  2. 1.7 124 km WSW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  3. 1.7 66 km W of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  4. 2.6 115 km WSW of Pelican, Alaska
  5. 1.8 71 km W of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  6. 2.1 94 km W of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  7. 2.0 80 km WSW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  8. 2.7 82 km WSW of Elfin Cove, AK
  9. 2.0 87 km WSW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  10. 2.1 87 km WSW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  11. 2.1 74 km WSW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  12. 1.8 84 km WSW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  13. 2.0 88 km WSW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  14. 1.8 82 km WSW of Elfin Cove, Alaska
  15. 2.6 91 km WSW of Elfin Cove, 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 4.0 on 2019-08-05.

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

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