198 km S of Adak, Alaska

Yes. A magnitude 3.2 earthquake was recorded 198 km S of Adak, Alaska at 19:57 UTC on 2021-08-14, 10 km deep.

2021-08-14 19:57 UTC · 10 km deep · released about 1,900 lb of TNT

Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.

When: 2021-08-14 19:57 UTC
Magnitude: M 3.2 (ml)
Depth: 10 km below the surface
Felt: no reports yet
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 1842 days ago · we first saw it 1842 days ago

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

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 45 km (28 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 1,900 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.2 would have released about 32 times as much.

Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 180,000× the energy of this one
Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 7,900× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 5,600× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 3.2 about 1,900 lb of TNT
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2× 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 5.4 on 2019-09-09 — about 2,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 11 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

6.2 204 km S of Adak, Alaska · 8 km SE of this epicentre Dec 9, 1918
6.1 198 km S of Adak, Alaska · 4 km W of this epicentre May 22, 1957
6.1 189 km S of Adak, Alaska · 17 km NW of this epicentre Jul 3, 1960
6.0 194 km SSW of Adak, Alaska · 44 km WNW of this epicentre Nov 11, 1993
5.8 176 km S of Adak, Alaska · 22 km N of this epicentre Apr 10, 1957

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

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Aftershocks so far

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

2.8 170 km S of Adak, Alaska 13:48 UTC
2.4 205 km S of Adak, Alaska 06:22 UTC
2.1 178 km S of Adak, Alaska 18:24 UTC
3.0 174 km S of Adak, Alaska 08:14 UTC
2.2 188 km S of Adak, Alaska 13:30 UTC
2.2 158 km S of Adak, Alaska 11:00 UTC
3.8 175 km S of Adak, Alaska 05:13 UTC
2.2 183 km SSW of Adak, Alaska 13:17 UTC
3.0 202 km S of Adak, Alaska 12:25 UTC
2.9 189 km S of Adak, Alaska 00:36 UTC
3.1 213 km S of Adak, Alaska 10:11 UTC
2.8 171 km S of Adak, Alaska 01:25 UTC
3.6 184 km S of Adak, Alaska 16:18 UTC
2.1 Andreanof Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska 07:01 UTC
2.6 175 km S of Adak, Alaska 15:57 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 08:17 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

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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