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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 4.0ml

222 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska

· 34 km deep · released about 15 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.0 (ml)
Depth
34 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 15 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.0 about 15 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 32× 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 56.0134, -150.0976. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.1 197 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  2. 3.2 214 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  3. 3.2 195 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  4. 3.1 215 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  5. 2.6 207 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  6. 3.2 203 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  7. 3.2 213 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  8. 4.4 256 km SSE of Chiniak, Alaska
  9. 2.8 193 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  10. 3.3 220 km SSE of Chiniak, Alaska
  11. 3.2 214 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  12. 4.1 229 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  13. 3.4 231 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  14. 3.0 190 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  15. 3.6 224 km SE 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 32 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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