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M 3.2ml

31 km SE of Tanana, Alaska

· 18 km deep · released about 1,900 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.2 (ml)
Depth
18 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, 44 km N
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1931 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,900 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,900 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 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 64.9803, -151.5810. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, AK 44 km (27 mi) S of here earthquakes near Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 39 km SSW of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  2. 1.5 25 km E of Tanana, Alaska
  3. 1.5 22 km E of Tanana, Alaska
  4. 1.6 34 km SW of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  5. 1.7 35 km SSE of Tanana, Alaska
  6. 1.6 54 km SW of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  7. 1.5 65 km SW of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  8. 1.5 34 km SW of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  9. 1.5 54 km SW of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  10. 1.7 61 km SW of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  11. 2.1 18 km ESE of Tanana, Alaska
  12. 1.6 40 km WSW of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  13. 1.8 30 km ENE of Tanana, Alaska
  14. 1.8 38 km SW of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  15. 2.3 42 km SSW of Manley Hot Springs, 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 5.1 on 2018-10-27 — it released about 710 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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