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M 4.5mb

66 km SW of False Pass, Alaska

Yes. A magnitude 4.5 earthquake was recorded 66 km SW of False Pass, Alaska, at 12:28 am AKST on 14 February 2026 (09:28 UTC), 80 km deep. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

· 80 km deep · released about 85 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.5 (mb)
Depth
80 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 130 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon.

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 114 km (71 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 85 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 2,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.5 about 85 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 180× 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 4.9 on 2023-09-12 — about 4 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 16 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

  1. 6.5 79 km SW of False Pass, Alaska · 13 km SW of this epicentre
  2. 6.2 102 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 41 km S of this epicentre
  3. 6.0 96 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska · 44 km SSE of this epicentre
  4. 5.8 95 km E of Akutan, Alaska · 33 km SW of this epicentre
  5. 5.8 85 km SW of False Pass, Alaska · 19 km SSW 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 54.3722, -164.0282. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 30 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska
  2. 2.4 105 km E of Akutan, Alaska
  3. 2.3 102 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska
  4. 1.6 61 km WSW of False Pass, Alaska
  5. 3.3 28 km WSW of False Pass, Alaska
  6. 2.3 96 km E of Akutan, Alaska
  7. 2.6 64 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska
  8. 2.7 73 km SW of False Pass, Alaska
  9. 1.9 33 km SW of False Pass, Alaska
  10. 2.6 74 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska
  11. 2.3 97 km S of False Pass, Alaska
  12. 2.6 90 km S of False Pass, Alaska
  13. 2.0 47 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska
  14. 2.5 94 km S of False Pass, Alaska
  15. 2.5 100 km SSW of False Pass, 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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