213 km W of Adak, Alaska

Yes. A magnitude 3.3 earthquake was recorded 213 km W of Adak, Alaska at 04:35 UTC on 2024-06-12, 106 km deep.

2024-06-12 04:35 UTC · 106 km deep · released about 1.3 tons of TNT

Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.

When: 2024-06-12 04:35 UTC
Magnitude: M 3.3 (ml)
Depth: 106 km below the surface
Felt: no reports yet
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 813 days ago · we first saw it 813 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

At this magnitude and depth it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.3 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 130,000× the energy of this one
Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 5,600× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4,000× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 3.3 about 1.3 tons of TNT
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 5.2 on 2016-11-23 — about 710 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 35 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

6.7 205 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 31 km SSE of this epicentre Oct 13, 1926
6.7 227 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 43 km S of this epicentre Jun 2, 1955
6.7 221 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 32 km S of this epicentre Jun 20, 1955
6.6 193 km WSW of Adak, Alaska · 40 km SE of this epicentre Apr 17, 1954
6.6 174 km W of Adak, Alaska · 40 km ENE of this epicentre Apr 16, 2008

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

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Aftershocks so far

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

5.0 214 km W of Adak, Alaska 12:41 UTC
2.1 210 km WSW of Adak, Alaska 00:35 UTC
1.7 211 km WSW of Adak, Alaska 10:21 UTC
2.0 195 km W of Adak, Alaska 06:34 UTC
4.1 209 km WSW of Adak, Alaska 21:41 UTC
2.1 193 km WSW of Adak, Alaska 12:54 UTC
2.0 222 km W of Adak, Alaska 06:47 UTC
1.7 192 km WSW of Adak, Alaska 15:54 UTC
2.7 185 km W of Adak, Alaska 07:50 UTC
1.8 212 km WSW of Adak, Alaska 11:40 UTC
1.7 218 km W of Adak, Alaska 02:12 UTC
2.2 195 km W of Adak, Alaska 02:04 UTC
1.9 183 km W of Adak, Alaska 07:41 UTC
2.5 202 km W of Adak, Alaska 16:34 UTC
2.7 207 km W of Adak, Alaska 14:59 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 06:52 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
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ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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