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M 6.0mww

87 km SE of King Cove, Alaska

· 31 km deep · released about 15 kilotons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 6.0 (mww)
Depth
31 km below the surface
Felt
22 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
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Tsunami
USGS flagged this event for tsunami evaluation. Follow tsunami.gov for official messages.
Nearest
Aleutians East Borough, 96 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1136 days ago

This was a strong earthquake. Damage is likely near the epicentre and it is felt over a wide area. 22 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 15 kilotons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 7.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Ridgecrest, California 2019 M 7.1 45× the energy of this one
  2. Loma Prieta, California 1989 M 6.9 22× the energy of this one
  3. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 6.0 about 15 kilotons of TNT
  5. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 this one released 2× more
  6. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 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.

Where

Epicentre 54.4266, -161.5131. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aleutians East Borough, AK 96 km (60 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Aleutians East Borough

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 100 km SE of King Cove, Alaska
  2. 4.4 105 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska
  3. 3.2 93 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska
  4. 2.9 65 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska
  5. 2.3 93 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska
  6. 2.2 103 km SE of King Cove, Alaska
  7. 2.5 95 km SE of King Cove, Alaska
  8. 2.3 76 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska
  9. 2.7 64 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska
  10. 2.3 52 km SE of King Cove, Alaska
  11. 2.2 62 km SE of King Cove, Alaska
  12. 2.7 104 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska
  13. 2.1 76 km ESE of King Cove, Alaska
  14. 2.1 83 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska
  15. 2.0 90 km SE of King Cove, 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 4.7 on 2018-11-20.

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

On USGS

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