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M 3.9mwr

25 km NNE of Pilot Point, Alaska

Yes. A magnitude 3.9 earthquake was recorded 25 km NNE of Pilot Point, Alaska at 22:36 UTC on 2022-11-10, 14 km deep.

· 14 km deep · released about 11 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.9 (mwr)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Lake and Peninsula Borough, 68 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1391 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 88 km (55 mi) from the epicentre. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 11 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 16,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.9 about 11 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 22× 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 4.0 on 2017-02-16 — about 1.4 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 3 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km:

  1. 5.9 10 km SE of Egegik, Alaska · 45 km N of this epicentre
  2. 5.4 48 km SE of Egegik, Alaska · 35 km ENE of this epicentre
  3. 5.4 35 km SE of Egegik, Alaska · 34 km NE of this epicentre

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 57.7598, -157.3555. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Lake and Peninsula Borough, AK 68 km (42 mi) NE earthquakes near Lake and Peninsula Borough
Bristol Bay Borough, AK 110 km (68 mi) N earthquakes near Bristol Bay 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. 1.9 7 km N of Ugashik, Alaska
  2. 2.0 3 km N of Ugashik, Alaska
  3. 1.6 44 km SE of Egegik, Alaska
  4. 1.9 15 km ESE of Ugashik, Alaska
  5. 2.3 18 km ESE of Ugashik, Alaska
  6. 1.9 20 km NNE of Pilot Point, Alaska
  7. 2.0 27 km N of Pilot Point, Alaska
  8. 1.9 25 km N of Pilot Point, Alaska
  9. 2.0 13 km SE of Ugashik, Alaska
  10. 1.8 27 km SE of Ugashik, Alaska
  11. 2.2 35 km ESE of Ugashik, Alaska
  12. 1.6 8 km ENE of Ugashik, Alaska
  13. 1.7 7 km NNE of Ugashik, Alaska
  14. 1.8 32 km ENE of Ugashik, Alaska
  15. 1.5 27 km NE of Pilot Point, 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.

On USGS

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