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M 3.1ml

244 km WSW of Adak, Alaska

Yes. A magnitude 3.1 earthquake was recorded 244 km WSW of Adak, Alaska at 04:42 UTC on 2022-02-10, 8.3 km deep.

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

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

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1671 days ago

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 41 km (25 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 6.1 on 2020-01-26 — about 32,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 96 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

  1. 7.2 238 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 21 km N of this epicentre
  2. 6.9 231 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 38 km N of this epicentre
  3. 6.8 235 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 35 km N of this epicentre
  4. 6.7 237 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 45 km N of this epicentre
  5. 6.7 239 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 40 km NNW of this epicentre

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 50.9582, -179.8343. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 232 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  2. 1.7 216 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  3. 1.7 227 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  4. 1.7 217 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  5. 1.6 236 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  6. 1.9 238 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  7. 2.7 Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
  8. 2.9 249 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  9. 2.6 Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
  10. 2.3 204 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  11. 2.5 220 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  12. 3.0 213 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  13. 2.6 241 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  14. 1.5 233 km WSW of Adak, Alaska
  15. 1.6 202 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.

On USGS

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