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M 4.0ml

160 km SE of Chignik, Alaska

· 29 km deep · released about 15 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.0 (ml)
Depth
29 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Measured shaking
intensity II (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1800 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 15 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.0 about 15 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 32× 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 55.4580, -156.3097. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 149 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  2. 4.3 162 km SE of Chignik, Alaska
  3. 3.8 165 km SE of Chignik, Alaska
  4. 3.2 160 km SE of Chignik, Alaska
  5. 3.6 160 km SE of Chignik, Alaska
  6. 4.1 south of Alaska
  7. 2.5 156 km SE of Chignik, Alaska
  8. 2.1 158 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  9. 2.4 148 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  10. 2.5 174 km SE of Chignik, Alaska
  11. 2.4 182 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  12. 2.8 152 km SE of Chignik, Alaska
  13. 4.8 137 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  14. 3.1 south of Alaska
  15. 2.7 168 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 5.4 on 2021-07-29 — it released about 130 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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