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M 3.6ml

26 km WNW of Four Mile Road, Alaska

· 32 km deep · released about 3.8 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Denali Borough 112 kmYukon-Koyukuk Census Area 119 km
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When
Magnitude
M 3.6 (ml)
Depth
32 km below the surface
Felt
4 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Denali Borough, 112 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 509 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 4 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 3.8 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.6 about 3.8 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 7.9× 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 64.6769, -149.6459. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Denali Borough, AK 112 km (70 mi) N of here earthquakes near Denali Borough
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, AK 119 km (74 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area

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. 1.9 18 km N of Four Mile Road, Alaska
  2. 2.7 19 km NNW of Four Mile Road, Alaska
  3. 1.5 7 km WNW of Four Mile Road, Alaska
  4. 1.6 7 km NW of Four Mile Road, Alaska
  5. 1.8 20 km WNW of Anderson, Alaska
  6. 1.7 8 km WNW of Four Mile Road, Alaska
  7. 1.6 13 km N of Four Mile Road, Alaska
  8. 1.7 30 km S of Minto, Alaska
  9. 1.8 26 km S of Minto, Alaska
  10. 1.5 6 km WNW of Four Mile Road, Alaska
  11. 1.9 27 km SSE of Minto, Alaska
  12. 1.7 44 km SE of Manley Hot Springs, Alaska
  13. 1.6 30 km SSE of Minto, Alaska
  14. 1.5 31 km W of Anderson, Alaska
  15. 1.9 35 km W of Anderson, 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 4.5 on 2019-04-11 — it released about 22 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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