161 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 43 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 350,000× the energy of this one
2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 250,000× the energy of this one
3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 22× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 43 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 6.9 on 2021-08-14 — about 16,000,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 11 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

1. 6.2 143 km SE of Perryville, Alaska · 32 km W of this epicentre Mar 25, 1927
2. 6.2 189 km SE of Chignik, Alaska · 46 km E of this epicentre Mar 18, 1945
3. 5.9 182 km SE of Perryville, Alaska · 33 km S of this epicentre Dec 23, 1938
4. 5.6 171 km SE of Chignik, Alaska · 48 km ENE of this epicentre Jun 22, 1970
5. 5.5 160 km SE of Perryville, Alaska · 5 km SW of this epicentre Mar 10, 2012

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 54.9358, -157.2539. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 3.7 133 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 08:15 UTC
2. 3.8 141 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 23:55 UTC
3. 2.3 115 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 15:20 UTC
4. 3.0 195 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 05:07 UTC
5. 2.6 142 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 05:51 UTC
6. 3.3 197 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 11:23 UTC
7. 3.3 193 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 11:14 UTC
8. 2.9 147 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 18:34 UTC
9. 2.7 151 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 17:57 UTC
10. 2.5 151 km SE of Chignik, Alaska 06:33 UTC
11. 3.2 204 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 04:44 UTC
12. 2.8 171 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 02:53 UTC
13. 2.5 156 km SE of Chignik, Alaska 23:25 UTC
14. 2.5 153 km SSE of Chignik, Alaska 23:02 UTC
15. 3.0 Alaska Peninsula 03:51 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 17:40 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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