180 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 38 km (24 mi) from the epicentre. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.3 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 130,000× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 5,600× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4,000× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 3.3 about 1.3 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.8× 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 5.9 on 2018-08-25 — about 7,900 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 62 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

1. 7.1 Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 49 km SSW of this epicentre Dec 31, 1901
2. 6.2 179 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska · 16 km SE of this epicentre Jun 4, 1956
3. 6.2 Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska · 29 km SSE of this epicentre Mar 10, 1957
4. 6.1 185 km ESE of Atka, Alaska · 48 km W of this epicentre Dec 6, 1930
5. 6.1 207 km ESE of Atka, Alaska · 40 km SW of this epicentre Mar 13, 1957

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 51.8798, -170.8640. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 3.8 160 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska 11:44 UTC
2. 3.7 150 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 11:11 UTC
3. 2.7 173 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 14:06 UTC
4. 2.5 165 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 08:03 UTC
5. 2.8 165 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 05:47 UTC
6. 3.0 159 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 11:02 UTC
7. 2.6 161 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 10:46 UTC
8. 4.0 148 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 02:00 UTC
9. 2.9 140 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 12:36 UTC
10. 2.7 143 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 07:34 UTC
11. 3.7 171 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 08:19 UTC
12. 3.8 135 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 12:32 UTC
13. 2.5 163 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 02:58 UTC
14. 3.9 155 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 17:01 UTC
15. 3.1 146 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 23:42 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 20:08 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.