144 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska

This was a moderate earthquake. Shaking at this size can damage poorly built structures close to the epicentre.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 11 kilotons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 6.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Ridgecrest, California 2019 M 7.1 63× the energy of this one
2. Loma Prieta, California 1989 M 6.9 32× the energy of this one
3. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 16× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 5.9 about 11 kilotons of TNT
5. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 this one released 1.4× more
6. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 this one released 2× 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 54.1535, -159.5619. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 4.8 114 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska 00:40 UTC
2. 3.5 107 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska 00:38 UTC
3. 3.5 112 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska 00:37 UTC
4. 4.8 139 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska 00:34 UTC
5. 4.1 113 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska 00:31 UTC
6. 3.2 109 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska 00:28 UTC
7. 4.0 114 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska 00:26 UTC
8. 4.2 103 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska 00:23 UTC
9. 3.3 108 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska 00:21 UTC
10. 3.4 120 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska 00:18 UTC
11. 3.2 100 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska 00:15 UTC
12. 3.5 98 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska 00:09 UTC
13. 3.2 105 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska 00:08 UTC
14. 4.0 127 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska 00:08 UTC
15. 3.1 112 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska 00:07 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 14:41 UTC. 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 5.7 on 2020-10-19.

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

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.