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M 3.1ml

169 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska

· 35 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.1 (ml)
Depth
35 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1810 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 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× 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 55.5838, -156.0101. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 170 km SSW of Akhiok, Alaska
  2. 2.2 145 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  3. 2.3 159 km SE of Chignik, Alaska
  4. 2.5 191 km SE of Chignik, Alaska
  5. 3.7 156 km SE of Chignik, Alaska
  6. 2.7 183 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  7. 3.6 192 km SSW of Akhiok, Alaska
  8. 4.0 160 km SE of Chignik, Alaska
  9. 3.2 152 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  10. 2.8 155 km SE of Chignik, Alaska
  11. 2.7 south of Alaska
  12. 2.5 190 km SSW of Akhiok, Alaska
  13. 2.8 186 km SSW of Akhiok, Alaska
  14. 2.8 184 km SE of Chignik, Alaska
  15. 3.3 186 km SSW of Akhiok, 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 4.8 on 2021-07-29 — it released about 350 times the energy of this one.

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

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