143 km SE of Perryville, Alaska

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

At this magnitude and depth it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. 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 120 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130,000× the energy of this one
2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 89,000× the energy of this one
3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 7.9× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 2.4 about 120 lb of TNT

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 8.2 on 2021-07-29 — about 500,000,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 13 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

1. 8.2 1938 Semidi Islands, Alaska Earthquake · 43 km WNW of this epicentre Nov 10, 1938
2. 6.9 105 km ESE of Perryville, Alaska · 50 km N of this epicentre Nov 17, 1938
3. 6.2 143 km SE of Perryville, Alaska · 11 km SW of this epicentre Mar 25, 1927
4. 5.9 182 km SE of Perryville, Alaska · 41 km SSE of this epicentre Dec 23, 1938
5. 5.5 160 km SE of Perryville, Alaska · 20 km ESE of this epicentre Mar 10, 2012

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 54.9657, -157.6144. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 2.4 100 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 04:47 UTC
2. 2.3 131 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 20:30 UTC
3. 2.2 108 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 17:41 UTC
4. 2.4 95 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 10:10 UTC
5. 2.4 152 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 00:07 UTC
6. 2.5 151 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 09:37 UTC
7. 2.6 175 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 01:02 UTC
8. 2.6 118 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 07:03 UTC
9. 2.5 112 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 17:59 UTC
10. 2.0 147 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 17:28 UTC
11. 2.2 142 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 06:29 UTC
12. 3.6 134 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 23:40 UTC
13. 1.8 Alaska Peninsula 19:33 UTC
14. 3.3 138 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 13:40 UTC
15. 2.6 149 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 06:46 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 11:33 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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