137 km SSE of Perryville, 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 36 km (22 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 1,300 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 7.8 on 2020-07-22 — about 11,000,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 5 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km:

1. 8.2 1938 Semidi Islands, Alaska Earthquake · 46 km N of this epicentre Nov 10, 1938
2. 6.6 104 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska · 35 km NW of this epicentre Nov 11, 1938
3. 6.5 183 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska · 46 km SSE of this epicentre Jul 1, 1967
4. 6.2 143 km SE of Perryville, Alaska · 39 km ENE of this epicentre Mar 25, 1927
5. 5.4 139 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska · 9 km ENE of this epicentre Jan 1, 1991

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 54.7669, -158.3127. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 2.4 133 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 00:51 UTC
2. 2.5 135 km SE of Perryville, Alaska 14:47 UTC
3. 2.4 149 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 03:38 UTC
4. 2.5 150 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 03:36 UTC
5. 3.3 116 km S of Perryville, Alaska 06:36 UTC
6. 3.0 173 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 08:01 UTC
7. 2.1 167 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 19:51 UTC
8. 3.1 112 km S of Perryville, Alaska 15:25 UTC
9. 3.0 132 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 17:04 UTC
10. 3.1 122 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 13:10 UTC
11. 3.0 145 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 01:43 UTC
12. 2.3 113 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 16:57 UTC
13. 1.9 178 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 05:55 UTC
14. 3.1 173 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska 02:57 UTC
15. 2.0 132 km SSE of Perryville, Alaska 00:04 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 23:48 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

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