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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 4.9mb

82 km SW of Atka, Alaska

· 52 km deep · released about 340 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.9 (mb)
Depth
52 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1144 days ago

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 340 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 500× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 22× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.9 about 340 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 710× 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 51.7392, -175.1385. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 78 km E of Adak, Alaska
  2. 2.0 96 km ESE of Adak, Alaska
  3. 4.6 48 km SW of Atka, Alaska
  4. 1.8 65 km SW of Atka, Alaska
  5. 1.8 62 km SSW of Atka, Alaska
  6. 2.8 76 km SSW of Atka, Alaska
  7. 2.1 109 km SSW of Atka, Alaska
  8. 2.6 70 km E of Adak, Alaska
  9. 1.8 65 km SW of Atka, Alaska
  10. 1.6 92 km SW of Atka, Alaska
  11. 1.7 70 km WSW of Atka, Alaska
  12. 2.3 111 km SSW of Atka, Alaska
  13. 1.7 69 km E of Adak, Alaska
  14. 1.9 90 km SW of Atka, Alaska
  15. 1.8 88 km ESE of Adak, 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 5.3 on 2017-05-28 — it released about 4 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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