128 km SE of Perryville, Alaska

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

At this magnitude and depth it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. 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 120 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 89,000× the energy of this one
3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.9× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 lb of TNT

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 8.2 on 2021-07-29 — about 500,000,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 12 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

1. 8.2 1938 Semidi Islands, Alaska Earthquake · 27 km NW of this epicentre Nov 10, 1938
2. 6.9 105 km ESE of Perryville, Alaska · 45 km NNE of this epicentre Nov 17, 1938
3. 6.6 104 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska · 49 km W of this epicentre Nov 11, 1938
4. 6.2 143 km SE of Perryville, Alaska · 15 km SSE of this epicentre Mar 25, 1927
5. 6.0 98 km ESE of Perryville, Alaska · 46 km N of this epicentre Jan 2, 1985

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 55.0114, -157.8690. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 2.8 Alaska Peninsula 08:34 UTC
2. 2.5 116 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 08:29 UTC
3. 2.5 141 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 07:34 UTC
4. 2.8 128 km SSE of Chignik, Alaska 07:12 UTC
5. 2.7 129 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 05:48 UTC
6. 3.2 131 km SSE of Chignik, Alaska 05:02 UTC
7. 2.8 141 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 03:30 UTC
8. 2.7 126 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 03:18 UTC
9. 2.1 123 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 03:11 UTC
10. 2.0 98 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 01:58 UTC
11. 2.9 126 km SSE of Chignik, Alaska 21:54 UTC
12. 2.1 135 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 18:28 UTC
13. 2.2 145 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 15:56 UTC
14. 2.5 139 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 15:23 UTC
15. 3.8 139 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 14:41 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 18:25 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

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