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M 3.9mb

239 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska

· 7.3 km deep · released about 11 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.9 (mb)
Depth
7.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1143 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 11 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 16,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.9 about 11 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 22× 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 55.9703, -149.7401. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 241 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  2. 3.6 244 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  3. 2.9 276 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  4. 3.2 287 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  5. 2.9 272 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  6. 3.2 Gulf of Alaska
  7. 3.0 221 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  8. 3.3 227 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  9. 3.3 246 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  10. 3.6 231 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  11. 3.0 257 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  12. 3.0 210 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  13. 3.1 222 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  14. 3.4 229 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  15. 3.5 277 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 5.3 on 2018-01-26 — it released about 130 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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