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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.1ml

south of Alaska

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

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

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1421 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 55.3986, -155.6138. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 156 km SSW of Akhiok, Alaska
  2. 3.1 153 km SSW of Akhiok, Alaska
  3. 3.3 165 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  4. 2.9 190 km SSW of Akhiok, Alaska
  5. 2.4 155 km SSW of Akhiok, Alaska
  6. 2.3 168 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  7. 2.8 150 km SSW of Akhiok, Alaska
  8. 2.9 190 km SE of Chignik, Alaska
  9. 3.9 174 km ESE of Chignik, Alaska
  10. 2.3 162 km SSW of Akhiok, Alaska
  11. 3.5 205 km SE of Chignik, Alaska
  12. 2.4 187 km SSW of Akhiok, Alaska
  13. 2.0 175 km SE of Chignik, Alaska
  14. 3.1 185 km SSW of Akhiok, Alaska
  15. 2.4 186 km SE of Chignik, 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 4.8 on 2021-07-29 — it released about 350 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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