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M 4.5ml

64 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska

· 133 km deep · released about 85 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Denali Borough 82 kmMatanuska-Susitna Borough 117 km
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When
Magnitude
M 4.5 (ml)
Depth
133 km below the surface
Felt
113 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Denali Borough, 82 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 6 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 113 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 85 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 2,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.5 about 85 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 180× 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 63.0760, -150.9690. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Denali Borough, AK 82 km (51 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Denali Borough
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK 117 km (73 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Matanuska-Susitna Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 51 km NNW of Petersville, Alaska
  2. 1.9 50 km SSE of Denali National Park, Alaska
  3. 2.1 48 km NNW of Petersville, Alaska
  4. 1.8 30 km N of Petersville, Alaska
  5. 1.7 43 km SSE of Denali National Park, Alaska
  6. 1.5 64 km ESE of Denali National Park, Alaska
  7. 1.8 52 km NNW of Petersville, Alaska
  8. 2.1 59 km ESE of Denali National Park, Alaska
  9. 1.7 37 km SE of Denali National Park, Alaska
  10. 2.0 33 km N of Petersville, Alaska
  11. 1.9 73 km NNE of Petersville, Alaska
  12. 2.0 59 km N of Petersville, Alaska
  13. 1.9 52 km SSE of Denali National Park, Alaska
  14. 2.0 52 km SSE of Denali National Park, Alaska
  15. 2.0 75 km NNE of Petersville, 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 5.3 on 2016-05-15 — it released about 16 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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