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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.1ml

189 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska

· 20 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.1 (ml)
Depth
20 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 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× 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 56.3018, -150.2865. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 207 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  2. 3.2 203 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  3. 3.2 213 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  4. 2.8 193 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  5. 3.3 220 km SSE of Chiniak, Alaska
  6. 3.2 214 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  7. 4.1 229 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  8. 3.4 231 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  9. 3.0 190 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  10. 3.6 224 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  11. 3.2 156 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  12. 3.4 208 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  13. 2.6 165 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  14. 3.9 228 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  15. 2.9 207 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 5.0 on 2018-01-23 — it released about 710 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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