180 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska

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

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 11 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 16,000× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 3.9 about 11 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 22× 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 54.3333, -158.2930. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 3.6 159 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska 02:46 UTC
2. 2.8 186 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska 02:00 UTC
3. 2.9 178 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska 07:34 UTC
4. 2.3 152 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 10:22 UTC
5. 3.5 136 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 23:42 UTC
6. 2.1 139 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 16:00 UTC
7. 2.7 170 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 09:03 UTC
8. 2.4 138 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 13:23 UTC
9. 2.8 136 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 13:18 UTC
10. 2.7 161 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 08:47 UTC
11. 2.8 178 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 09:00 UTC
12. 3.0 161 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 19:02 UTC
13. 3.1 138 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 03:09 UTC
14. 2.5 161 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 08:33 UTC
15. 2.6 164 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 20:53 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 13:16 UTC. 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 5.4 on 2020-08-08 — it released about 180 times the energy of this one.

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

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.