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M 5.4ml

48 km ESE of Fox River, Alaska

· 24 km deep · released about 1.9 kilotons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 5.4 (ml)
Depth
24 km below the surface
Felt
2179 reports · strongest reported intensity VI
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
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Tsunami
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Nearest
Kenai Peninsula Borough, 142 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3 days ago

This was a moderate earthquake. Shaking at this size can damage poorly built structures close to the epicentre. 2179 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.9 kilotons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 6.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 89× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 4× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 5.4 about 1.9 kilotons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 4,000× 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 59.6308, -150.2328. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK 142 km (88 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Kenai Peninsula Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 42 km WSW of Lowell Point, Alaska
  2. 1.9 15 km ESE of Fox River, Alaska
  3. 2.5 18 km SE of Fox River, Alaska
  4. 3.4 30 km NE of Fox River, Alaska
  5. 1.5 41 km SE of Fox River, Alaska
  6. 3.8 32 km E of Halibut Cove, Alaska
  7. 1.9 34 km ESE of Halibut Cove, Alaska
  8. 1.8 17 km SE of Fox River, Alaska
  9. 2.0 21 km ENE of Fox River, Alaska
  10. 1.9 23 km SE of Fox River, Alaska
  11. 1.8 46 km ESE of Fox River, Alaska
  12. 1.7 11 km ENE of Fox River, Alaska
  13. 2.3 27 km SE of Fox River, Alaska
  14. 2.8 35 km SE of Fox River, Alaska
  15. 2.3 13 km E of Fox River, 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 4.7 on 2022-12-12.

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

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