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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.1ml

115 km NNE of Arctic Village, Alaska

· 22 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.1 (ml)
Depth
22 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1723 days ago

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

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× 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 69.1101, -144.6347. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 116 km NNE of Arctic Village, Alaska
  2. 1.7 northern Alaska
  3. 2.2 75 km NNE of Arctic Village, Alaska
  4. 2.4 78 km SSW of Kaktovik, Alaska
  5. 1.6 115 km NNE of Arctic Village, Alaska
  6. 1.6 114 km SSW of Kaktovik, Alaska
  7. 1.6 116 km SSW of Kaktovik, Alaska
  8. 2.0 117 km SSW of Kaktovik, Alaska
  9. 2.2 112 km SSW of Kaktovik, Alaska
  10. 2.6 northern Alaska
  11. 1.6 102 km SSW of Kaktovik, Alaska
  12. 2.0 112 km SSW of Kaktovik, Alaska
  13. 1.9 93 km NNE of Arctic Village, Alaska
  14. 1.6 113 km SSW of Kaktovik, Alaska
  15. 1.7 110 km NNE of Arctic Village, 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 6.0 on 2018-08-12 — it released about 22,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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