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M 5.0mww

111 km NW of Yakutat, Alaska

· 13 km deep · released about 480 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 5.0 (mww)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
12 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
Tsunami
USGS flagged this event for tsunami evaluation. Follow tsunami.gov for official messages.
Nearest
Yakutat City and Borough, 49 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 743 days ago

This was a moderate earthquake. Shaking at this size can damage poorly built structures close to the epicentre. 12 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 480 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 6.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 5.0 about 480 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1,000× 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 60.2235, -141.1937. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Yakutat City and Borough, AK 49 km (30 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Yakutat City and Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 Southern Alaska
  2. 1.5 Southern Alaska
  3. 1.6 97 km NW of Yakutat, Alaska
  4. 1.6 95 km NW of Yakutat, Alaska
  5. 1.7 102 km NW of Yakutat, Alaska
  6. 2.1 98 km NW of Yakutat, Alaska
  7. 2.9 97 km NW of Yakutat, Alaska
  8. 1.8 84 km WNW of Yakutat, Alaska
  9. 1.5 97 km NW of Yakutat, Alaska
  10. 1.6 96 km NW of Yakutat, Alaska
  11. 1.8 102 km NW of Yakutat, Alaska
  12. 1.9 110 km WNW of Yakutat, Alaska
  13. 1.6 Southern Alaska
  14. 1.6 94 km NW of Yakutat, Alaska
  15. 1.5 99 km WNW of Yakutat, 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 4.1 on 2016-12-26.

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

On USGS

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