129 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska

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

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 11 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 16,000× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 3.9 about 11 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 22× 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 52.0104, -170.0118. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 3.0 130 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 12:00 UTC
2. 3.3 156 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 12:14 UTC
3. 3.4 82 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska 11:41 UTC
4. 2.9 102 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska 02:03 UTC
5. 2.9 96 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 19:45 UTC
6. 2.7 161 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 14:49 UTC
7. 2.6 140 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 14:32 UTC
8. 3.9 81 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 02:20 UTC
9. 3.3 112 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 12:56 UTC
10. 5.1 130 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska 09:02 UTC
11. 4.4 87 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 22:11 UTC
12. 5.4 81 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska 20:40 UTC
13. 5.2 94 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska 19:01 UTC
14. 4.6 100 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska 00:29 UTC
15. 4.4 92 km SSW of Nikolski, Alaska 21:04 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 23:36 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 5.8 on 2019-10-26 — it released about 710 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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