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M 4.4mwr

19 km ENE of Primrose, Alaska

· 32 km deep · released about 60 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.4 (mwr)
Depth
32 km below the surface
Felt
355 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Anchorage Municipality, 88 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1464 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 355 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 60 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 2,800× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.4 about 60 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 130× 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 60.3895, -149.0133. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Anchorage Municipality, AK 88 km (55 mi) S of here earthquakes near Anchorage Municipality

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
  2. 1.6 20 km W of Whittier, Alaska
  3. 2.4 17 km E of Moose Pass, Alaska
  4. 1.5 22 km NE of Moose Pass, Alaska
  5. 1.5 25 km ESE of Lowell Point, Alaska
  6. 2.8 19 km ENE of Primrose, Alaska
  7. 1.7 4 km W of Primrose, Alaska
  8. 1.5 23 km SSE of Whittier, Alaska
  9. 1.5 22 km S of Sunrise, Alaska
  10. 2.0 17 km ESE of Lowell Point, Alaska
  11. 1.5 25 km NNE of Moose Pass, Alaska
  12. 1.5 23 km NNE of Moose Pass, Alaska
  13. 1.7 21 km ESE of Lowell Point, Alaska
  14. 1.7 7 km W of Moose Pass, Alaska
  15. 1.7 1 km WSW of Primrose, 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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