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M 3.2ml

11 km NNW of Akutan, Alaska

· 95 km deep · released about 1,900 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.2 (ml)
Depth
95 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1145 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 1,900 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,900 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2× 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 54.2314, -165.8338. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 33 km S of Akutan, Alaska
  2. 1.7 28 km E of Unalaska, Alaska
  3. 3.0 26 km ENE of Dutch Harbor, Alaska
  4. 2.0 30 km E of Unalaska, Alaska
  5. 1.8 15 km WNW of Akutan, Alaska
  6. 2.1 13 km WSW of Akutan, Alaska
  7. 1.7 14 km W of Akutan, Alaska
  8. 1.8 34 km SE of Akutan, Alaska
  9. 2.0 14 km E of Akutan, Alaska
  10. 2.0 22 km S of Akutan, Alaska
  11. 1.9 23 km S of Akutan, Alaska
  12. 1.6 36 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska
  13. 1.6 35 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska
  14. 2.7 57 km N of Akutan, Alaska
  15. 1.5 16 km WSW of Akutan, 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.

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