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M 4.2mb

111 km N of Yakutat, Alaska

· 5.0 km deep · released about 30 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.2 (mb)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Measured shaking
intensity V (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Yakutat City and Borough, 62 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 201 days ago

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 30 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 5,600× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 250× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.2 about 30 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 63× 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 60.5366, -139.9898. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Yakutat City and Borough, AK 62 km (39 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Yakutat City and Borough

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 117 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  2. 2.1 116 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  3. 2.0 113 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  4. 2.3 90 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  5. 1.9 121 km NNW of Yakutat, Alaska
  6. 1.9 113 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  7. 2.3 116 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  8. 2.4 101 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  9. 2.6 108 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  10. 2.0 116 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  11. 2.2 108 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  12. 2.1 103 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  13. 2.0 120 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  14. 2.4 114 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  15. 1.8 102 km N of Yakutat, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 7.0 on 2025-12-06 — it released about 16,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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