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M 5.5mww

28 km SE of Cantwell, Alaska

· 80 km deep · released about 2.7 kilotons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Denali Borough 90 kmMatanuska-Susitna Borough 114 km
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When
Magnitude
M 5.5 (mww)
Depth
80 km below the surface
Felt
1975 reports · strongest reported intensity V
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Tsunami
USGS flagged this event for tsunami evaluation. Follow tsunami.gov for official messages.
Nearest
Denali Borough, 90 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 279 days ago

This was a moderate earthquake. Shaking at this size can damage poorly built structures close to the epicentre. 1975 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 2.7 kilotons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 6.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 63× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2.8× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 5.5 about 2.7 kilotons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 5,600× 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 63.2011, -148.5799. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Denali Borough, AK 90 km (56 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Denali Borough
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK 114 km (71 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Matanuska-Susitna Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 50 km S of Cantwell, Alaska
  2. 2.3 43 km S of Cantwell, Alaska
  3. 1.9 62 km SSE of Cantwell, Alaska
  4. 1.8 44 km ESE of Cantwell, Alaska
  5. 1.6 61 km SSE of Cantwell, Alaska
  6. 1.5 60 km SSE of Cantwell, Alaska
  7. 2.1 62 km SSE of Cantwell, Alaska
  8. 1.5 39 km SSE of Cantwell, Alaska
  9. 2.2 61 km SSE of Cantwell, Alaska
  10. 2.3 68 km S of Cantwell, Alaska
  11. 1.5 34 km E of Cantwell, Alaska
  12. 1.8 60 km S of Cantwell, Alaska
  13. 1.9 60 km SSE of Cantwell, Alaska
  14. 3.0 59 km SSE of Cantwell, Alaska
  15. 3.0 59 km SSE of Cantwell, 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 4.5 on 2019-10-27.

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

On USGS

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