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M 4.2mb

229 km W of Adak, Alaska

· 97 km deep · released about 30 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.2 (mb)
Depth
97 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2353 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 30 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 250× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.2 about 30 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 63× 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 51.7558, -179.9560. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 216 km W of Adak, Alaska
  2. 2.2 206 km W of Adak, Alaska
  3. 3.2 232 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  4. 2.0 222 km W of Adak, Alaska
  5. 2.2 229 km W of Adak, Alaska
  6. 2.8 226 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  7. 1.7 216 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  8. 1.9 221 km W of Adak, Alaska
  9. 1.8 200 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  10. 2.5 215 km W of Adak, Alaska
  11. 3.2 192 km W of Adak, Alaska
  12. 2.2 226 km W of Adak, Alaska
  13. 2.6 217 km W of Adak, Alaska
  14. 3.1 210 km W of Adak, Alaska
  15. 2.2 207 km W of Adak, 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 2016-11-23 — 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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