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M 4.6mb

181 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska

· 42 km deep · released about 120 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.6 (mb)
Depth
42 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1157 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 120 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 1,400× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.6 about 120 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 250× 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 52.1246, -171.1836. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 163 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska
  2. 2.7 194 km ESE of Atka, Alaska
  3. 3.8 185 km E of Atka, Alaska
  4. 3.2 185 km E of Atka, Alaska
  5. 3.2 190 km E of Atka, Alaska
  6. 3.7 179 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  7. 3.1 Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
  8. 4.2 200 km ESE of Atka, Alaska
  9. 2.8 195 km E of Atka, Alaska
  10. 2.7 182 km ESE of Atka, Alaska
  11. 3.6 197 km ESE of Atka, Alaska
  12. 4.4 198 km E of Atka, Alaska
  13. 4.0 177 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  14. 2.4 158 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska
  15. 2.8 182 km ESE of Atka, 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.

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