78 km SSE of Old Harbor, Alaska

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 15 km (9 mi) from the epicentre. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 60 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 250,000× the energy of this one
2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180,000× the energy of this one
3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 16× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 2.2 about 60 lb of TNT

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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 5.4 on 2017-05-11 — about 63,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 73 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

1. 6.9 47 km S of Old Harbor, Alaska · 39 km NW of this epicentre Jan 10, 2001
2. 6.8 100 km SSE of Old Harbor, Alaska · 27 km SSW of this epicentre Jun 19, 1986
3. 6.6 88 km SSE of Old Harbor, Alaska · 13 km SSW of this epicentre Dec 21, 1917
4. 6.6 94 km SSE of Old Harbor, Alaska · 16 km SSE of this epicentre Apr 12, 1978
5. 6.5 85 km SSE of Old Harbor, Alaska · 19 km SW of this epicentre Mar 30, 1964

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 56.5632, -152.7679. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 2.2 31 km SSE of Old Harbor, Alaska 00:27 UTC
2. 2.4 53 km SSE of Old Harbor, Alaska 03:31 UTC
3. 1.9 30 km SSE of Old Harbor, Alaska 03:15 UTC
4. 2.5 104 km SSE of Old Harbor, Alaska 19:48 UTC
5. 2.6 121 km SSE of Old Harbor, Alaska 19:41 UTC
6. 3.2 103 km SSE of Old Harbor, Alaska 19:17 UTC
7. 2.1 53 km SSE of Old Harbor, Alaska 09:51 UTC
8. 3.1 108 km SSE of Old Harbor, Alaska 03:23 UTC
9. 3.2 115 km SSE of Old Harbor, Alaska 00:06 UTC
10. 2.1 58 km SE of Old Harbor, Alaska 13:28 UTC
11. 1.9 30 km SE of Old Harbor, Alaska 16:55 UTC
12. 2.0 80 km SE of Old Harbor, Alaska 21:22 UTC
13. 2.5 35 km SSE of Old Harbor, Alaska 18:45 UTC
14. 3.4 51 km SSE of Old Harbor, Alaska 00:03 UTC
15. 3.3 95 km SSE of Old Harbor, Alaska 01:11 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 13:46 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

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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