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M 3.2ml

213 km SSE of Atka, Alaska

Yes. A magnitude 3.2 earthquake was recorded 213 km SSE of Atka, Alaska at 13:41 UTC on 2025-03-27, 10 km deep.

· 10 km deep · released about 1,900 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.2 (ml)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 526 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, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 45 km (28 mi) from the epicentre. 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 1,900 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,900× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,900 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2× 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 4.5 on 2017-01-10 — about 89 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 8 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

  1. 6.2 234 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 38 km ESE of this epicentre
  2. 6.0 234 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 24 km SSW of this epicentre
  3. 5.6 198 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 19 km NNE of this epicentre
  4. 5.5 232 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 22 km SE of this epicentre
  5. 5.4 198 km SSE of Atka, Alaska · 18 km NW of this epicentre

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

Epicentre 50.3449, -173.3879. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.5 227 km SSE of Atka, Alaska
  2. 3.4 217 km SSE of Atka, Alaska
  3. 3.1 223 km SSE of Atka, Alaska
  4. 2.5 170 km S of Atka, Alaska
  5. 3.1 195 km S of Atka, Alaska
  6. 3.0 205 km S of Atka, Alaska
  7. 2.7 178 km SSE of Atka, Alaska
  8. 3.2 194 km SSE of Atka, Alaska
  9. 3.2 196 km SSE of Atka, Alaska
  10. 3.3 201 km SSE of Atka, Alaska
  11. 3.0 202 km SSE of Atka, Alaska
  12. 3.1 194 km SSE of Atka, Alaska
  13. 3.8 187 km SSE of Atka, Alaska
  14. 3.0 195 km S of Atka, Alaska
  15. 3.1 170 km SSE 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.

On USGS

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