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M 3.2ml

20 km NNE of Nikiski, Alaska

· 59 km deep · released about 1,900 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kenai Peninsula Borough 86 kmAnchorage Municipality 105 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 3.2 (ml)
Depth
59 km below the surface
Felt
4 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Kenai Peninsula Borough, 86 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1408 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 4 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1,900 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,900 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2× 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 60.8572, -151.1136. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK 86 km (53 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Kenai Peninsula Borough
Anchorage Municipality, AK 105 km (65 mi) WSW 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 16 km SW of Tyonek, Alaska
  3. 2.3 14 km N of Beluga, Alaska
  4. 1.6 5 km E of Tyonek, Alaska
  5. 1.7 15 km NW of Beluga, Alaska
  6. 2.4 0 km NNW of Salamatof, Alaska
  7. 1.5 18 km N of Nikiski, Alaska
  8. 1.7 12 km SE of Tyonek, Alaska
  9. 3.2 20 km ENE of Nikiski, Alaska
  10. 3.3 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
  11. 1.8 6 km S of Funny River, Alaska
  12. 2.1 4 km ENE of Sterling, Alaska
  13. 1.5 4 km E of Funny River, Alaska
  14. 1.6 8 km E of Ridgeway, Alaska
  15. 1.7 19 km NNE of Sterling, 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 2022-07-12 — it released about 250 times the energy of this one.

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

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