162 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska

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 1.3 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 130,000× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 5,600× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4,000× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 3.3 about 1.3 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.8× 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 53.3819, -163.6560. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 3.0 177 km SE of Akutan, Alaska 18:59 UTC
2. 2.5 147 km S of False Pass, Alaska 08:09 UTC
3. 2.8 148 km S of False Pass, Alaska 02:02 UTC
4. 2.9 161 km S of False Pass, Alaska 12:56 UTC
5. 2.7 150 km S of False Pass, Alaska 16:29 UTC
6. 2.8 167 km S of False Pass, Alaska 20:58 UTC
7. 3.6 172 km S of False Pass, Alaska 05:59 UTC
8. 2.9 141 km SE of Akutan, Alaska 07:52 UTC
9. 2.7 149 km SE of Akutan, Alaska 07:15 UTC
10. 2.6 163 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska 19:47 UTC
11. 3.9 157 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska 13:55 UTC
12. 2.2 141 km SE of Akutan, Alaska 23:07 UTC
13. 2.6 156 km S of False Pass, Alaska 05:44 UTC
14. 2.2 123 km S of False Pass, Alaska 04:25 UTC
15. 2.5 166 km S of False Pass, Alaska 15:19 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 12:31 UTC. 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 5.9 on 2016-10-27 — it released about 7,900 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.