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M 4.5ml

162 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska

· 37 km deep · released about 85 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.5 (ml)
Depth
37 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1809 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 85 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 2,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.5 about 85 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 180× 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 55.7315, -156.0072. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 177 km SSW of Akhiok, Alaska
  2. 2.2 119 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  3. 1.8 157 km SSW of Akhiok, Alaska
  4. 3.3 158 km SE of Chignik, Alaska
  5. 3.0 169 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  6. 1.6 south of Alaska
  7. 2.8 190 km SSW of Akhiok, Alaska
  8. 3.0 158 km SE of Chignik, Alaska
  9. 1.9 144 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  10. 2.4 170 km SE of Chignik, Alaska
  11. 2.6 166 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  12. 2.4 162 km SW of Akhiok, Alaska
  13. 2.5 152 km SW of Akhiok, Alaska
  14. 3.3 150 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  15. 2.0 154 km ESE of Chignik, 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 2.8 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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