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M 3.4ml

134 km SE of McCarthy, Alaska

· 6.6 km deep · released about 1.9 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.4 (ml)
Depth
6.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Yakutat City and Borough, 76 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 737 days ago

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

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.9 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 4,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,800× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 1.9 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 4× 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 60.4364, -141.5070. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Yakutat City and Borough, AK 76 km (47 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Yakutat City and Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 97 km NW of Yakutat, Alaska
  2. 1.5 103 km NW of Yakutat, Alaska
  3. 1.5 134 km SSE of McCarthy, Alaska
  4. 2.2 134 km SE of McCarthy, Alaska
  5. 2.1 136 km SSE of McCarthy, Alaska
  6. 1.5 112 km WNW of Yakutat, Alaska
  7. 1.5 110 km NW of Yakutat, Alaska
  8. 1.5 135 km NW of Yakutat, Alaska
  9. 1.8 112 km NW of Yakutat, Alaska
  10. 1.8 103 km NW of Yakutat, Alaska
  11. 2.0 105 km WNW of Yakutat, Alaska
  12. 1.6 111 km NW of Yakutat, Alaska
  13. 1.5 99 km NW of Yakutat, Alaska
  14. 1.7 100 km NW of Yakutat, Alaska
  15. 1.7 104 km NW of Yakutat, 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 5.0 on 2022-09-29 — it released about 250 times the energy of this one.

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

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