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M 4.9mb

130 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska

· 55 km deep · released about 340 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.9 (mb)
Depth
55 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 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 52.4221, -170.5894. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.1 125 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska
  2. 2.8 161 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  3. 4.5 96 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska
  4. 2.9 117 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  5. 3.4 118 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  6. 2.9 162 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  7. 4.0 140 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  8. 3.8 116 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  9. 2.8 129 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  10. 2.1 156 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska
  11. 2.3 129 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  12. 2.1 115 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  13. 2.5 92 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska
  14. 2.5 Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
  15. 3.2 151 km WSW 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 5.2 on 2017-05-19 — it released about 2.8 times the energy of this one.

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

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