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M 4.2mwr

6 km ESE of Susitna North, Alaska

· 45 km deep · released about 30 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.2 (mwr)
Depth
45 km below the surface
Felt
33 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, 18 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 599 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 33 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 30 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 250× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.2 about 30 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 63× 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 62.1484, -149.7388. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK 18 km (11 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Matanuska-Susitna Borough
Anchorage Municipality, AK 111 km (69 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Anchorage Municipality

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 7 km SE of Talkeetna, Alaska
  2. 1.8 23 km N of Willow, Alaska
  3. 1.8 3 km S of Trapper Creek, Alaska
  4. 1.9 19 km SSW of Susitna North, Alaska
  5. 1.7 22 km ENE of Willow, Alaska
  6. 1.6 16 km E of Susitna North, Alaska
  7. 1.7 37 km ENE of Susitna North, Alaska
  8. 1.5 21 km SW of Susitna North, Alaska
  9. 1.8 16 km NNW of Meadow Lakes, Alaska
  10. 1.5 13 km W of Susitna North, Alaska
  11. 1.6 18 km N of Willow, Alaska
  12. 2.2 5 km SSE of Chase, Alaska
  13. 1.8 20 km ESE of Susitna North, Alaska
  14. 1.9 20 km WNW of Fishhook, Alaska
  15. 2.8 30 km ENE of Susitna North, 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 4.6 on 2020-11-26 — it released about 4 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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