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M 3.1ml

21 km SSW of Sunrise, Alaska

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

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When
Magnitude
M 3.1 (ml)
Depth
36 km below the surface
Felt
7 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Anchorage Municipality, 54 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2508 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 7 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

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 60.7082, -149.5897. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Anchorage Municipality, AK 54 km (34 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Anchorage Municipality

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 17 km SSW of Hope, Alaska
  2. 1.6 18 km WSW of Cooper Landing, Alaska
  3. 1.9 3 km WNW of Cooper Landing, Alaska
  4. 1.9 3 km WNW of Cooper Landing, Alaska
  5. 1.7 25 km NW of Cooper Landing, Alaska
  6. 1.7 14 km NNE of Hope, Alaska
  7. 1.8 5 km SSE of Girdwood, Alaska
  8. 2.4 11 km ESE of Primrose, Alaska
  9. 1.7 14 km SW of Hope, Alaska
  10. 1.6 8 km SSE of Girdwood, Alaska
  11. 2.4 13 km NNW of Girdwood, Alaska
  12. 1.7 15 km SSE of Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska
  13. 2.2 21 km NE of Moose Pass, Alaska
  14. 2.1 12 km S of Sunrise, Alaska
  15. 2.0 18 km NW of Cooper Landing, 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 2016-02-15 — it released about 45 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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