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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 4.0mb

260 km SW of Tofino, Canada

· 10 km deep · released about 15 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.0 (mb)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3722 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 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 47.6868, -128.6444. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 4.0 278 km SW of Tofino, Canada
  2. 3.9 263 km SW of Tofino, Canada
  3. 3.9 254 km SW of Tofino, Canada
  4. 3.5 265 km SW of Tofino, Canada
  5. 3.2 off the coast of Washington
  6. 3.4 288 km SW of Tofino, Canada
  7. 3.1 263 km SW of Tofino, Canada
  8. 3.0 216 km SW of Tofino, Canada
  9. 3.2 241 km SW of Tofino, Canada
  10. 4.3 227 km SW of Tofino, Canada
  11. 3.0 253 km WSW of Tofino, Canada
  12. 4.8 283 km SW of Tofino, Canada
  13. 3.1 291 km SW of Tofino, Canada
  14. 4.1 299 km SW of Tofino, Canada
  15. 4.9 259 km WSW of Tofino, Canada

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 4.0 on 2016-05-07.

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

On USGS

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