186 km SE of Chignik, Alaska

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

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 48 km (30 mi) from the epicentre. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.3 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 130,000× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 5,600× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4,000× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 3.3 about 1.3 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.8× 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 5.4 on 2021-07-29 — about 1,400 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 10 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

1. 7.0 164 km SE of Chignik, Alaska · 34 km N of this epicentre Sep 4, 1989
2. 6.2 189 km SE of Chignik, Alaska · 8 km SSW of this epicentre Mar 18, 1945
3. 6.0 168 km SE of Chignik, Alaska · 26 km N of this epicentre Nov 16, 1938
4. 5.6 171 km SE of Chignik, Alaska · 16 km NNW of this epicentre Jun 22, 1970
5. 5.6 205 km SE of Chignik, Alaska · 19 km SE of this epicentre Feb 7, 1996

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 55.0158, -156.4785. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 2.1 159 km SE of Chignik, Alaska 01:54 UTC
2. 2.3 167 km SE of Chignik, Alaska 01:01 UTC
3. 2.4 158 km SE of Chignik, Alaska 20:35 UTC
4. 2.1 177 km SE of Chignik, Alaska 16:23 UTC
5. 3.0 199 km SE of Chignik, Alaska 11:33 UTC
6. 3.6 195 km SE of Chignik, Alaska 11:30 UTC
7. 2.5 159 km SE of Chignik, Alaska 07:04 UTC
8. 2.3 149 km SE of Chignik, Alaska 06:08 UTC
9. 3.4 173 km SE of Chignik, Alaska 04:20 UTC
10. 2.9 155 km SE of Chignik, Alaska 00:54 UTC
11. 3.3 149 km SE of Chignik, Alaska 23:31 UTC
12. 3.6 161 km SSE of Chignik, Alaska 19:15 UTC
13. 3.0 140 km SE of Chignik, Alaska 15:42 UTC
14. 3.0 153 km SE of Chignik, Alaska 14:34 UTC
15. 2.6 151 km SE of Chignik, Alaska 12:55 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 12:55 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

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.