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M 5.2mww

37 km NW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska

· 212 km deep · released about 950 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 5.2 (mww)
Depth
212 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Tsunami
USGS flagged this event for tsunami evaluation. Follow tsunami.gov for official messages.
Nearest
Aleutians East Borough, 115 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 904 days ago

This was a moderate earthquake. Shaking at this size can damage poorly built structures close to the epicentre. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 950 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 6.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7.9× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 5.2 about 950 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2,000× 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 56.2588, -161.6009. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aleutians East Borough, AK 115 km (72 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Aleutians East Borough

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.8 50 km NW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  2. 3.3 1 km SE of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  3. 2.3 35 km WSW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  4. 1.9 16 km SW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  5. 2.4 19 km NW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  6. 1.8 6 km SSE of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  7. 2.8 16 km SW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  8. 3.3 22 km NW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  9. 3.0 24 km NNW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  10. 2.4 28 km WSW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  11. 3.1 43 km NNW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  12. 2.4 5 km E of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  13. 2.8 19 km SW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  14. 2.7 18 km SW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  15. 1.8 29 km WSW of Nelson Lagoon, 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 5.3 on 2016-06-29 — it released about 1.4 times the energy of this one.

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

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