128 km WSW of Nikolski, 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 340 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 500× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 22× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 4.9 about 340 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 710× 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 52.4081, -170.5441. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 3.0 168 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 20:41 UTC
2. 2.3 108 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska 03:48 UTC
3. 3.4 164 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska 01:00 UTC
4. 3.5 148 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 22:10 UTC
5. 3.0 150 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 10:07 UTC
6. 2.5 96 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska 03:57 UTC
7. 2.6 171 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 11:16 UTC
8. 5.2 102 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 23:26 UTC
9. 3.1 165 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska 22:04 UTC
10. 2.6 163 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 11:08 UTC
11. 2.2 136 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 16:33 UTC
12. 2.2 134 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 09:15 UTC
13. 4.0 130 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska 23:13 UTC
14. 2.4 118 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska 20:42 UTC
15. 4.0 121 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska 06:37 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 13:52 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 5.8 on 2019-10-26 — it released about 22 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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