112 km S of McCarthy, Alaska

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 2.7 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 63,000× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 2.7 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 5.6× 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 60.4323, -143.1937. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 1.9 120 km SSW of McCarthy, Alaska 18:05 UTC
2. 2.6 120 km S of McCarthy, Alaska 21:10 UTC
3. 2.0 120 km E of Cordova, Alaska 20:42 UTC
4. 1.6 128 km SSW of McCarthy, Alaska 15:39 UTC
5. 1.9 117 km S of McCarthy, Alaska 19:15 UTC
6. 2.6 122 km S of McCarthy, Alaska 17:54 UTC
7. 2.3 104 km S of McCarthy, Alaska 14:54 UTC
8. 2.0 106 km S of McCarthy, Alaska 04:01 UTC
9. 1.7 116 km S of McCarthy, Alaska 16:25 UTC
10. 2.2 126 km SSW of McCarthy, Alaska 06:07 UTC
11. 1.8 124 km SSW of McCarthy, Alaska 05:44 UTC
12. 1.8 110 km S of McCarthy, Alaska 08:52 UTC
13. 2.6 117 km S of McCarthy, Alaska 06:03 UTC
14. 2.1 104 km S of McCarthy, Alaska 01:37 UTC
15. 1.8 109 km S of McCarthy, Alaska 00:26 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 17:21 UTC. 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 4.3 on 2017-11-13 — it released about 16 times the energy of this one.

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

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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