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M 3.8ml

33 km NE of Whittier, Alaska

· 31 km deep · released about 7.6 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.8 (ml)
Depth
31 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Anchorage Municipality, 56 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 716 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 7.6 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.8 about 7.6 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 16× 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 61.0057, -148.2946. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Anchorage Municipality, AK 56 km (35 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Anchorage Municipality
Chugach Census Area, AK 127 km (79 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Chugach Census Area

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 25 km SSE of Whittier, Alaska
  2. 1.6 54 km S of Glacier View, Alaska
  3. 1.6 34 km NNE of Whittier, Alaska
  4. 2.0 23 km ENE of Whittier, Alaska
  5. 1.6 51 km ENE of Whittier, Alaska
  6. 2.2 25 km N of Whittier, Alaska
  7. 2.0 57 km S of Glacier View, Alaska
  8. 1.5 23 km ESE of Whittier, Alaska
  9. 1.5 50 km S of Glacier View, Alaska
  10. 1.6 64 km NE of Whittier, Alaska
  11. 1.5 44 km ENE of Whittier, Alaska
  12. 1.6 55 km ENE of Whittier, Alaska
  13. 1.5 18 km NNE of Whittier, Alaska
  14. 1.5 28 km SSE of Knik River, Alaska
  15. 1.9 25 km SSE of Whittier, 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.

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