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M 3.4ml

13 km N of Susitna North, Alaska

· 52 km deep · released about 1.9 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.4 (ml)
Depth
52 km below the surface
Felt
10 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, 18 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1860 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 10 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.9 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 4,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,800× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 1.9 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 4× 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 62.2796, -149.8504. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK 18 km (11 mi) W 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

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

  1. 1.6 4 km SSW of Trapper Creek, Alaska
  2. 1.5 20 km ESE of Chase, Alaska
  3. 1.5 14 km ESE of Susitna North, Alaska
  4. 2.9 11 km SSE of Susitna North, Alaska
  5. 1.6 Southern Alaska
  6. 1.5 25 km SE of Susitna North, Alaska
  7. 1.5 20 km E of Chase, Alaska
  8. 2.4 18 km S of Susitna North, Alaska
  9. 1.8 Central Alaska
  10. 2.3 16 km NNW of Willow, Alaska
  11. 2.5 27 km SSE of Susitna North, Alaska
  12. 1.5 15 km NNW of Chase, Alaska
  13. 1.7 7 km SSE of Talkeetna, Alaska
  14. 1.8 7 km SE of Susitna North, Alaska
  15. 1.6 11 km SSE of Trapper Creek, 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 4.6 on 2020-11-26 — it released about 63 times the energy of this one.

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

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