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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.6ml

138 km E of Atka, Alaska

· 103 km deep · released about 3.8 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.6 (ml)
Depth
103 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2053 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 3.8 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 45,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.6 about 3.8 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 7.9× 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 52.3921, -172.2004. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.3 169 km E of Atka, Alaska
  2. 3.8 104 km ENE of Atka, Alaska
  3. 3.5 159 km ENE of Atka, Alaska
  4. 2.6 165 km E of Atka, Alaska
  5. 3.0 162 km E of Atka, Alaska
  6. 3.3 139 km E of Atka, Alaska
  7. 5.0 129 km E of Atka, Alaska
  8. 3.6 164 km E of Atka, Alaska
  9. 2.6 153 km E of Atka, Alaska
  10. 5.0 172 km ENE of Atka, Alaska
  11. 3.5 173 km E of Atka, Alaska
  12. 3.8 132 km ENE of Atka, Alaska
  13. 3.7 107 km E of Atka, Alaska
  14. 3.7 147 km ENE of Atka, Alaska
  15. 3.5 137 km E 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.9 on 2016-10-20 — it released about 89 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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