93 km SSE of Adak, Alaska

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 6.2 on 2025-03-21 — about 32,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 94 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

1. 7.1 75 km S of Adak, Alaska · 36 km WNW of this epicentre Mar 14, 1957
2. 7.0 101 km S of Adak, Alaska · 12 km SSW of this epicentre Sep 9, 1910
3. 6.7 76 km SSE of Adak, Alaska · 20 km NNE of this epicentre Dec 10, 1905
4. 6.6 85 km SSW of Adak, Alaska · 48 km W of this epicentre Jul 5, 1929
5. 6.5 57 km S of Adak, Alaska · 42 km NW of this epicentre Jun 18, 1986

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 51.0686, -176.2582. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 1.8 66 km SSE of Adak, Alaska 09:34 UTC
2. 4.0 95 km SSE of Adak, Alaska 21:21 UTC
3. 2.7 73 km SSE of Adak, Alaska 14:07 UTC
4. 1.9 53 km SSE of Adak, Alaska 13:11 UTC
5. 1.7 56 km SE of Adak, Alaska 17:03 UTC
6. 2.0 94 km SSE of Adak, Alaska 09:38 UTC
7. 2.7 99 km SSE of Adak, Alaska 07:10 UTC
8. 2.2 90 km SSE of Adak, Alaska 06:56 UTC
9. 2.6 98 km SSE of Adak, Alaska 06:04 UTC
10. 1.8 84 km SSE of Adak, Alaska 16:50 UTC
11. 1.8 91 km SSE of Adak, Alaska 16:24 UTC
12. 3.4 105 km SSE of Adak, Alaska 12:02 UTC
13. 3.3 88 km SSE of Adak, Alaska 10:45 UTC
14. 2.9 101 km SSE of Adak, Alaska 10:16 UTC
15. 2.8 94 km SSE of Adak, Alaska 09:21 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 08:02 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
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.