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M 5.1mww

126 km SE of Akutan, Alaska

· 10 km deep · released about 670 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 5.1 (mww)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity I
Tsunami
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Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 279 days ago

This was a moderate earthquake. Shaking at this size can damage poorly built structures close to the epicentre. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 670 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 6.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 5.1 about 670 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1,400× 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 53.3072, -164.4538. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 107 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  2. 2.6 141 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska
  3. 1.9 85 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  4. 2.3 136 km SSE of Akutan, Alaska
  5. 2.5 175 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  6. 2.3 89 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  7. 3.2 103 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska
  8. 2.9 99 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska
  9. 3.1 105 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska
  10. 2.3 95 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  11. 2.2 109 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  12. 2.0 91 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  13. 2.4 130 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska
  14. 2.2 119 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  15. 2.3 130 km SSE of Akutan, 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 2016-09-15.

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

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