131 km E of Chignik, Alaska

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

At this magnitude and depth it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 lb of TNT

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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 4.5 on 2017-03-28 — about 5,600 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 12 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

1. 7.0 113 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska · 45 km SW of this epicentre May 4, 1923
2. 6.9 143 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska · 39 km S of this epicentre Feb 13, 1951
3. 6.3 112 km E of Chignik, Alaska · 19 km WNW of this epicentre Feb 25, 1953
4. 6.1 132 km E of Chignik, Alaska · 6 km NNE of this epicentre Sep 13, 1911
5. 6.1 118 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska · 31 km SW of this epicentre Mar 16, 1940

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 56.1499, -156.3016. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 1.9 130 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska 10:24 UTC
2. 4.2 130 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska 18:04 UTC
3. 1.8 160 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska 16:03 UTC
4. 2.0 164 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska 01:36 UTC
5. 3.3 149 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska 14:43 UTC
6. 2.0 112 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska 06:19 UTC
7. 2.0 135 km SW of Akhiok, Alaska 04:15 UTC
8. 3.1 131 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska 07:01 UTC
9. 2.2 122 km E of Chignik, Alaska 20:32 UTC
10. 1.9 118 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska 23:12 UTC
11. 2.2 114 km E of Chignik, Alaska 15:42 UTC
12. 2.5 110 km E of Chignik, Alaska 16:52 UTC
13. 3.4 105 km ENE of Chignik, Alaska 22:10 UTC
14. 2.6 132 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska 02:46 UTC
15. 2.4 139 km E of Chignik, Alaska 19:45 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 03:06 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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