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M 3.5ml

24 km ENE of Nome, Alaska

· 8.3 km deep · released about 2.7 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.5 (ml)
Depth
8.3 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Nome Census Area, 41 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1427 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 2.7 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 2.7 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 5.6× 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 64.6242, -164.9754. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Nome Census Area, AK 41 km (26 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Nome Census Area

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 13 km ESE of Nome, Alaska
  2. 2.6 8 km SSW of Solomon, Alaska
  3. 2.6 8 km ENE of Nome, Alaska
  4. 3.4 13 km ENE of Nome, Alaska
  5. 2.2 38 km NNE of Nome, Alaska
  6. 1.6 57 km NNW of Solomon, Alaska
  7. 1.8 20 km WNW of Solomon, Alaska
  8. 1.7 30 km NW of Solomon, Alaska
  9. 1.9 31 km SSW of Solomon, Alaska
  10. 1.7 36 km N of Nome, Alaska
  11. 1.5 18 km ESE of Nome, Alaska
  12. 1.7 22 km W of Solomon, Alaska
  13. 2.1 29 km SE of Nome, Alaska
  14. 1.8 5 km SSW of Nome, Alaska
  15. 1.7 32 km NNW of Solomon, 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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