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M 4.8mww

55 km NNE of Petersville, Alaska

· 99 km deep · released about 240 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Denali Borough 82 kmMatanuska-Susitna Borough 92 km
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When
Magnitude
M 4.8 (mww)
Depth
99 km below the surface
Felt
180 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Denali Borough, 82 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1386 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 180 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 240 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 710× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 32× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 22× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.8 about 240 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 500× 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 62.9719, -150.4435. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Denali Borough, AK 82 km (51 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Denali Borough
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK 92 km (57 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Matanuska-Susitna Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 61 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska
  2. 3.0 Central Alaska
  3. 1.5 Central Alaska
  4. 1.6 63 km ESE of Denali National Park, Alaska
  5. 1.6 57 km N of Petersville, Alaska
  6. 1.9 63 km ESE of Denali National Park, Alaska
  7. 1.7 60 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska
  8. 1.5 67 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska
  9. 1.9 22 km NE of Petersville, Alaska
  10. 1.6 71 km ESE of Denali National Park, Alaska
  11. 1.9 58 km NNW of Petersville, Alaska
  12. 1.6 75 km NNE of Petersville, Alaska
  13. 1.6 61 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska
  14. 1.6 70 km ESE of Denali National Park, Alaska
  15. 1.9 37 km N of Petersville, 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 5.3 on 2016-05-15 — it released about 5.6 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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