south of 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 60 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 250,000× the energy of this one
2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180,000× the energy of this one
3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 16× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 60 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 7.8 on 2020-07-22 — about 250,000,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 7 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

1. 8.2 1938 Semidi Islands, Alaska Earthquake · 44 km N of this epicentre Nov 10, 1938
2. 6.6 104 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska · 34 km NW of this epicentre Nov 11, 1938
3. 6.5 183 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska · 47 km SSE of this epicentre Jul 1, 1967
4. 6.2 143 km SE of Perryville, Alaska · 37 km ENE of this epicentre Mar 25, 1927
5. 5.4 139 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska · 8 km E of this epicentre Jan 1, 1991

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 54.7858, -158.2931. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 2.1 93 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 01:03 UTC
2. 2.5 114 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 06:45 UTC
3. 4.9 130 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 05:57 UTC
4. 2.8 161 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 09:01 UTC
5. 3.4 100 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 08:19 UTC
6. 2.2 94 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 19:52 UTC
7. 2.5 130 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 10:33 UTC
8. 2.3 124 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 11:50 UTC
9. 2.0 95 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 22:28 UTC
10. 3.5 109 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 20:08 UTC
11. 3.0 135 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 09:51 UTC
12. 3.0 102 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 12:43 UTC
13. 2.6 139 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 19:17 UTC
14. 2.4 106 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 16:06 UTC
15. 2.0 99 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 02:51 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 16:08 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

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.