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M 4.3ml

46 km NE of Lake Minchumina, Alaska

· 14 km deep · released about 43 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.3 (ml)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
11 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Denali Borough, 89 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2178 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 11 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 43 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 4,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.3 about 43 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 89× 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 64.1225, -151.5358. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Denali Borough, AK 89 km (55 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Denali Borough

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. 2.3 70 km NE of Lake Minchumina, Alaska
  2. 2.1 51 km NE of Lake Minchumina, Alaska
  3. 3.2 71 km NE of Lake Minchumina, Alaska
  4. 1.5 76 km NE of Lake Minchumina, Alaska
  5. 1.6 63 km SSW of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  6. 2.0 42 km NE of Lake Minchumina, Alaska
  7. 2.0 70 km NE of Lake Minchumina, Alaska
  8. 1.9 45 km ENE of Lake Minchumina, Alaska
  9. 1.7 63 km SSW of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  10. 1.8 61 km SSW of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  11. 1.8 53 km NE of Lake Minchumina, Alaska
  12. 2.0 73 km NE of Lake Minchumina, Alaska
  13. 2.1 78 km SSW of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  14. 2.1 22 km ENE of Lake Minchumina, Alaska
  15. 1.5 45 km NE of Denali National Park, 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.

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