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M 4.0ml

41 km NNW of Glacier View, Alaska

· 27 km deep · released about 15 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.0 (ml)
Depth
27 km below the surface
Felt
34 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, 87 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 7 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 34 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 15 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.0 about 15 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 32× 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 62.1700, -147.8350. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK 87 km (54 mi) E of here earthquakes near Matanuska-Susitna Borough
Anchorage Municipality, AK 135 km (84 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Anchorage Municipality

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 11 km ESE of Chickaloon, Alaska
  2. 1.5 20 km NW of Glacier View, Alaska
  3. 2.2 79 km N of Chickaloon, Alaska
  4. 1.7 50 km NNE of Chickaloon, Alaska
  5. 1.7 9 km W of Eureka Roadhouse, Alaska
  6. 1.6 29 km NW of Glacier View, Alaska
  7. 2.0 82 km N of Chickaloon, Alaska
  8. 1.8 78 km NW of Eureka Roadhouse, Alaska
  9. 1.8 62 km N of Chickaloon, Alaska
  10. 1.5 42 km NNW of Glacier View, Alaska
  11. 2.4 42 km NNW of Glacier View, Alaska
  12. 1.6 10 km WNW of Glacier View, 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 6.1 on 2021-05-31 — it released about 1,400 times the energy of this one.

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

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