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M 3.4ml

17 km NW of Old Harbor, Alaska

· 37 km deep · released about 1.9 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.4 (ml)
Depth
37 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kodiak Island Borough, 51 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1560 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 1.9 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 4,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,800× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 1.9 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 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 57.2907, -153.5456. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kodiak Island Borough, AK 51 km (32 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Kodiak Island Borough

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 33 km SW of Womens Bay, Alaska
  2. 1.8 33 km SSE of Old Harbor, Alaska
  3. 2.1 Kodiak Island region, Alaska
  4. 1.7 34 km N of Old Harbor, Alaska
  5. 1.5 25 km SE of Larsen Bay, Alaska
  6. 1.7 16 km NE of Old Harbor, Alaska
  7. 2.0 12 km S of Old Harbor, Alaska
  8. 2.3 13 km ESE of Larsen Bay, Alaska
  9. 2.3 5 km SW of Old Harbor, Alaska
  10. 1.9 21 km NNE of Old Harbor, Alaska
  11. 2.1 Kodiak Island region, Alaska
  12. 1.9 26 km WNW of Old Harbor, Alaska
  13. 1.7 27 km NE of Akhiok, Alaska
  14. 2.5 28 km NE of Akhiok, Alaska
  15. 1.9 34 km SSE of Old Harbor, 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 4.9 on 2021-01-03 — it released about 180 times the energy of this one.

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

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