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M 4.1mwr

4 km SSW of Salcha, Alaska

· 11 km deep · released about 21 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.1 (mwr)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
612 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Fairbanks North Star Borough, 29 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 911 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 612 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 21 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 350× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 250× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.1 about 21 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 45× 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 64.4865, -146.9258. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK 29 km (18 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Fairbanks North Star 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. 1.8 3 km SSW of Salcha, Alaska
  2. 2.3 3 km SSW of Salcha, Alaska
  3. 1.5 4 km S of Salcha, Alaska
  4. 1.5 3 km SSW of Salcha, Alaska
  5. 2.6 17 km SW of Salcha, Alaska
  6. 2.3 7 km ENE of Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska
  7. 1.5 5 km S of Salcha, Alaska
  8. 1.9 2 km S of Salcha, Alaska
  9. 2.5 3 km SSW of Salcha, Alaska
  10. 1.8 9 km SSW of Salcha, Alaska
  11. 2.2 6 km SSW of Salcha, Alaska
  12. 2.2 11 km E of Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska
  13. 1.7 4 km SSE of Salcha, Alaska
  14. 2.0 24 km ESE of Pleasant Valley, Alaska
  15. 1.6 7 km SSW of Salcha, 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 2024-01-19 — it released about 63 times the energy of this one.

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

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