Earthquake · automatic estimate, may change
M 3.0ml
45 km SE of Mud Bay, Alaska
Yes. A magnitude 3.0 earthquake was recorded 45 km SE of Mud Bay, Alaska, at 6:44 pm AKDT on 11 October 2025 (02:44 UTC), less than 1 km deep. The magnitude and location are an automatic first estimate and may change.
- When
- Magnitude
- M 3.0 (ml)
- Depth
- 0.8 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Haines Borough, 51 km WNW
- Nearest mapped fault
- Denali fault, 24 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
- Status
- Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 316 days ago
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This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.
At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 37 km (23 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 950 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 3.0 about 950 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 4.2 on 2022-10-10 — about 63 times the energy of this one.
Before 2016, the USGS record lists one earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km:
- 5.0 23 km SSE of Mud Bay, Alaska · 27 km WNW of this epicentre
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 58.8931, -134.7828. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction from the epicentre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haines Borough, AK | 51 km (32 mi) | WNW | earthquakes near Haines Borough |
| Juneau City and Borough, AK | 68 km (42 mi) | SSE | earthquakes near Juneau City and Borough |
| Skagway Municipality, AK | 81 km (50 mi) | NNW | earthquakes near Skagway Municipality |
| Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, AK | 84 km (52 mi) | SW | earthquakes near Hoonah-Angoon Census Area |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
2 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
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.
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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