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M 3.8ml

189 km ESE of Atka, Alaska

· 38 km deep · released about 7.6 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.8 (ml)
Depth
38 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1892 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 7.6 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 22,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 710× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.8 about 7.6 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 16× 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 51.8492, -171.4932. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 3.6 167 km E of Atka, Alaska
  2. 2.8 182 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska
  3. 4.6 185 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska
  4. 2.0 165 km E of Atka, Alaska
  5. 2.5 176 km ESE of Atka, Alaska
  6. 2.9 179 km ESE of Atka, Alaska
  7. 3.4 182 km E of Atka, Alaska
  8. 4.4 Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
  9. 2.5 172 km SW of Nikolski, Alaska
  10. 2.8 198 km E of Atka, Alaska
  11. 3.1 183 km ESE of Atka, Alaska
  12. 2.8 176 km ESE of Atka, Alaska
  13. 2.7 Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
  14. 2.8 188 km E of Atka, Alaska
  15. 3.7 180 km WSW of Nikolski, 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 5.9 on 2018-08-25 — it released about 1,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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