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M 5.3mww

163 km ESE of Nikolski, Alaska

· 11 km deep · released about 1.3 kilotons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 5.3 (mww)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
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.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.3 kilotons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 6.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 130× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 5.6× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 5.3 about 1.3 kilotons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2,800× 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 52.3223, -166.6654. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 149 km ESE of Nikolski, Alaska
  2. 2.1 137 km S of Unalaska, Alaska
  3. 2.1 130 km S of Unalaska, Alaska
  4. 2.1 150 km ESE of Nikolski, Alaska
  5. 2.4 146 km SE of Nikolski, Alaska
  6. 4.9 143 km SE of Nikolski, Alaska
  7. 2.1 137 km S of Unalaska, Alaska
  8. 2.2 132 km S of Unalaska, Alaska
  9. 2.4 169 km SE of Nikolski, Alaska
  10. 2.0 170 km ESE of Nikolski, Alaska
  11. 1.5 126 km S of Unalaska, Alaska
  12. 2.0 134 km ESE of Nikolski, Alaska
  13. 2.3 124 km S of Unalaska, Alaska
  14. 2.1 146 km S of Unalaska, Alaska
  15. 3.6 126 km S of Unalaska, 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 4.3 on 2016-01-06.

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

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