152 km S of False Pass, Alaska

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

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 43 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 4,000× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 4.3 about 43 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 89× 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 53.4874, -163.6056. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 2.3 153 km S of False Pass, Alaska 11:25 UTC
2. 3.0 155 km SE of Akutan, Alaska 19:29 UTC
3. 2.6 117 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska 05:54 UTC
4. 3.8 121 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska 02:50 UTC
5. 2.6 167 km S of False Pass, Alaska 00:36 UTC
6. 2.6 111 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska 04:15 UTC
7. 2.5 156 km S of False Pass, Alaska 09:25 UTC
8. 2.8 156 km S of False Pass, Alaska 13:25 UTC
9. 2.8 139 km S of False Pass, Alaska 19:49 UTC
10. 3.9 106 km S of False Pass, Alaska 22:57 UTC
11. 3.9 167 km S of False Pass, Alaska 23:27 UTC
12. 2.4 166 km S of False Pass, Alaska 03:50 UTC
13. 3.5 115 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska 19:40 UTC
14. 2.9 144 km S of False Pass, Alaska 02:14 UTC
15. 2.9 129 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska 01:34 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 12:10 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 250 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

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