236 km SSW of Adak, Alaska

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon.

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 168 km (104 mi) from the epicentre. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 240 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 710× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 32× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 22× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 4.8 about 240 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 500× 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km (31 mi) since our catalogue begins in 2016. The previous largest was M 4.2 on 2016-07-24.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 2 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km:

1. 6.8 Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 38 km WNW of this epicentre Jun 22, 1913
2. 6.0 254 km SW of Adak, Alaska · 42 km W of this epicentre Jul 8, 1929

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 50.0079, -178.2526. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 2.2 207 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 05:26 UTC
2. 3.5 268 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 06:34 UTC
3. 2.1 Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska 14:25 UTC
4. 3.3 255 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 22:54 UTC
5. 2.1 196 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 02:29 UTC
6. 3.7 Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska 04:33 UTC
7. 2.9 225 km SW of Adak, Alaska 16:02 UTC
8. 3.2 276 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 00:06 UTC
9. 4.5 259 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 05:25 UTC
10. 2.9 246 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 06:01 UTC
11. 2.4 215 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 05:14 UTC
12. 3.4 200 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 07:49 UTC
13. 2.0 260 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 06:56 UTC
14. 2.2 257 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 23:48 UTC
15. 2.7 255 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 06:14 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 07:39 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

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

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