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M 6.0mww

169 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska

· 28 km deep · released about 15 kilotons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 6.0 (mww)
Depth
28 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity I
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
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Tsunami
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Status
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USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 146 days ago

This was a strong earthquake. Damage is likely near the epicentre and it is felt over a wide area. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 15 kilotons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 7.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Ridgecrest, California 2019 M 7.1 45× the energy of this one
  2. Loma Prieta, California 1989 M 6.9 22× the energy of this one
  3. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 6.0 about 15 kilotons of TNT
  5. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 this one released 2× more
  6. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 this one released 2.8× 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 52.0681, -170.9122. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.9 158 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska
  2. 2.5 156 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  3. 3.2 173 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  4. 3.7 165 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  5. 3.6 162 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  6. 6.0 168 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  7. 2.3 179 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  8. 3.2 168 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  9. 3.1 169 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  10. 4.2 158 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  11. 3.8 153 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  12. 2.3 163 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  13. 3.7 153 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  14. 3.9 157 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  15. 3.2 194 km ESE of Atka, 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 5.9 on 2018-08-25.

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

On USGS

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