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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 4.6mb

214 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska

· 32 km deep · released about 120 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.6 (mb)
Depth
32 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1143 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 120 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 1,400× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 63× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 45× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.6 about 120 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 250× 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 56.1285, -150.0457. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.2 210 km SSE of Chiniak, Alaska
  2. 3.6 208 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  3. 3.3 230 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  4. 2.6 225 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  5. 3.4 228 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  6. 3.1 211 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  7. 4.1 226 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  8. 3.9 220 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  9. 3.4 235 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  10. 3.6 221 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  11. 3.5 210 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  12. 3.0 200 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  13. 3.1 209 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  14. 3.4 206 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  15. 3.4 222 km SSE of Chiniak, 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 5.0 on 2018-01-23 — 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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