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M 4.3mb

263 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska

· 5.8 km deep · released about 43 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.3 (mb)
Depth
5.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1145 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 43 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 4,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.3 about 43 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 89× 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 55.9557, -149.2071. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.4 255 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  2. 3.5 226 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  3. 3.0 240 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  4. 3.7 235 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  5. 3.6 223 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  6. 3.6 242 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  7. 3.5 246 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  8. 3.8 222 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  9. 4.2 227 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  10. 3.6 296 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  11. 4.0 256 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  12. 4.1 245 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  13. 3.7 221 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  14. 3.7 235 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  15. 2.8 232 km SE of Chiniak, 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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