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M 4.4mwr

250 km ESE of Chiniak, Alaska

· 10 km deep · released about 60 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.4 (mwr)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Tsunami
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Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1464 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 60 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 2,800× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 130× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 89× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.4 about 60 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 130× 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 56.4109, -148.7861. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.3 248 km ESE of Chiniak, Alaska
  2. 2.5 262 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  3. 2.5 241 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  4. 3.2 236 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  5. 3.3 241 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  6. 2.7 248 km ESE of Chiniak, Alaska
  7. 2.9 255 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  8. 3.2 262 km ESE of Chiniak, Alaska
  9. 3.8 277 km ESE of Chiniak, Alaska
  10. 2.6 203 km ESE of Chiniak, Alaska
  11. 2.7 219 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska
  12. 2.8 Gulf of Alaska
  13. 3.3 Gulf of Alaska
  14. 2.7 279 km ESE of Chiniak, Alaska
  15. 2.6 Gulf of 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 5.5 on 2018-05-08 — it released about 45 times the energy of this one.

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

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