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M 3.1ml

225 km WSW of Adak, Alaska

· 27 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.1 (ml)
Depth
27 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1724 days ago

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 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× 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 51.3571, -179.7849. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 201 km W of Adak, Alaska
  2. 2.1 238 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  3. 2.0 248 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  4. 2.1 236 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  5. 1.9 Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
  6. 3.1 204 km W of Adak, Alaska
  7. 3.0 218 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  8. 3.9 213 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  9. 2.7 224 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  10. 2.9 202 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  11. 2.7 246 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  12. 3.1 244 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  13. 1.9 213 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  14. 1.9 197 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  15. 3.6 244 km WSW 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 6.1 on 2020-01-26 — it released about 32,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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