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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 4.4mwr

288 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska

· 10 km deep · released about 60 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.4 (mwr)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

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

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 60 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 2,800× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.4 about 60 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 130× 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 55.6347, -149.2286. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.2 242 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  2. 3.4 245 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  3. 3.1 264 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  4. 3.6 256 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  5. 3.2 269 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  6. 2.9 245 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  7. 3.0 251 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  8. 3.5 285 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  9. 3.8 240 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  10. 2.7 259 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  11. 3.1 279 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  12. 2.9 287 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  13. 3.2 274 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  14. 2.7 250 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  15. 2.7 270 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 7.9 on 2018-01-23 — it released about 180,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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