161 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska

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 340 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 500× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 22× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 4.9 about 340 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 710× 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 51.8688, -170.4603. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 3.2 168 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 16:40 UTC
2. 2.2 114 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 05:31 UTC
3. 2.9 125 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 04:57 UTC
4. 3.1 151 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 07:07 UTC
5. 2.8 126 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 06:55 UTC
6. 3.6 132 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 23:59 UTC
7. 3.0 171 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 08:24 UTC
8. 2.9 129 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 11:03 UTC
9. 2.9 142 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 08:11 UTC
10. 3.6 174 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 20:38 UTC
11. 3.1 167 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 16:15 UTC
12. 2.7 167 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 14:25 UTC
13. 2.1 130 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 19:17 UTC
14. 3.3 174 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 04:09 UTC
15. 3.3 159 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 15:09 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 14:45 UTC. 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 2024-05-19 — it released about 45 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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