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M 3.0ml

190 km SE of Chignik, Alaska

Yes. A magnitude 3.0 earthquake was recorded 190 km SE of Chignik, Alaska at 19:35 UTC on 2021-09-08, 32 km deep.

· 32 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.0 (ml)
Depth
32 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1822 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 18 km (11 mi) from the epicentre. 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 950 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 950 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 4.8 on 2021-07-29 — about 500 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. 7.0 164 km SE of Chignik, Alaska · 33 km W of this epicentre
  2. 6.9 171 km SW of Akhiok, Alaska · 46 km N of this epicentre
  3. 6.1 210 km SE of Chignik, Alaska · 20 km SE of this epicentre
  4. 6.0 223 km SSW of Akhiok, Alaska · 33 km SE of this epicentre
  5. 6.0 168 km SE of Chignik, Alaska · 36 km W of this epicentre

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 55.3098, -155.9122. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 225 km SSW of Akhiok, Alaska
  2. 4.5 south of Alaska
  3. 4.5 south of Alaska
  4. 2.1 217 km SSW of Akhiok, Alaska
  5. 3.0 193 km SSW of Akhiok, Alaska
  6. 3.1 south of Alaska
  7. 2.3 173 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  8. 2.1 172 km SSW of Akhiok, Alaska
  9. 3.2 174 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  10. 3.1 198 km SE of Chignik, Alaska
  11. 1.9 166 km SW of Akhiok, Alaska
  12. 2.2 174 km SSW of Akhiok, Alaska
  13. 2.2 168 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  14. 2.0 144 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  15. 2.1 171 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.

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