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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 4.2mb

259 km W of Tofino, Canada

· 13 km deep · released about 30 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.2 (mb)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1199 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 30 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 250× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.2 about 30 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 63× 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 48.7907, -129.4095. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 4.0 272 km SW of Port McNeill, Canada
  2. 4.1 241 km W of Tofino, Canada
  3. 4.1 213 km SW of Port McNeill, Canada
  4. 4.2 266 km SW of Port McNeill, Canada
  5. 4.4 224 km WSW of Tofino, Canada
  6. 5.2 231 km WSW of Tofino, Canada
  7. 5.3 239 km WSW of Tofino, Canada
  8. 4.8 232 km WSW of Tofino, Canada
  9. 4.3 238 km WSW of Tofino, Canada
  10. 5.7 233 km WSW of Tofino, Canada
  11. 4.2 233 km WSW of Tofino, Canada
  12. 4.7 246 km WSW of Tofino, Canada
  13. 4.5 245 km WSW of Tofino, Canada
  14. 4.6 264 km WSW of Tofino, Canada

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 6.0 on 2023-04-13 — it released about 500 times the energy of this one.

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

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