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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.9ml

140 km S of Unalaska, Alaska

· 24 km deep · released about 11 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.9 (ml)
Depth
24 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1151 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 11 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 16,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.9 about 11 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 22× 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 52.6139, -166.5159. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.2 169 km ESE of Nikolski, Alaska
  2. 2.0 108 km S of Unalaska, Alaska
  3. 1.9 Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
  4. 2.5 145 km ESE of Nikolski, Alaska
  5. 2.3 155 km ESE of Nikolski, Alaska
  6. 1.8 131 km S of Unalaska, Alaska
  7. 2.5 Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
  8. 2.7 161 km ESE of Nikolski, Alaska
  9. 1.9 148 km S of Unalaska, Alaska
  10. 2.1 141 km S of Unalaska, Alaska
  11. 2.2 154 km ESE of Nikolski, Alaska
  12. 2.0 147 km ESE of Nikolski, Alaska
  13. 2.1 166 km ESE of Nikolski, Alaska
  14. 2.4 163 km ESE of Nikolski, Alaska
  15. 2.5 165 km ESE of Nikolski, 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 5.4 on 2016-07-26 — it released about 180 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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