98 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska

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 43 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 4,000× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 4.3 about 43 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 89× 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 54.5905, -159.6634. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 2.4 135 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska 02:15 UTC
2. 2.4 115 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska 01:44 UTC
3. 2.4 109 km SE of Sand Point, Alaska 01:42 UTC
4. 2.4 114 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska 00:48 UTC
5. 2.2 92.8 km NNW of Sand Point, AK 22:29 UTC
6. 2.9 93 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska 22:03 UTC
7. 2.8 99 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska 21:50 UTC
8. 2.3 88.3 km NNW of Sand Point, AK 21:42 UTC
9. 2.4 127.4 km NNW of Sand Point, AK 19:44 UTC
10. 2.3 115 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska 19:14 UTC
11. 2.2 96.7 km NNW of Sand Point, AK 18:54 UTC
12. 2.8 128 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska 17:28 UTC
13. 3.9 108 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska 17:01 UTC
14. 2.6 90 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska 14:39 UTC
15. 3.0 113 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska 13:40 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 16:19 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 7.6 on 2020-10-19 — it released about 89,000 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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