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M 6.8mww

100 km SE of Nikolski, Alaska

· 20 km deep · released about 240 kilotons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 6.8 (mww)
Depth
20 km below the surface
Felt
28 reports · strongest reported intensity VII
Measured shaking
intensity VI (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
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Tsunami
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Status
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USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1004 days ago

This was a strong earthquake. Damage is likely near the epicentre and it is felt over a wide area. 28 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 240 kilotons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 7.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. San Francisco 1906 M 7.9 45× the energy of this one
  2. Ridgecrest, California 2019 M 7.1 2.8× the energy of this one
  3. Loma Prieta, California 1989 M 6.9 1.4× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 6.8 about 240 kilotons of TNT
  5. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 this one released 1.4× more
  6. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 this one released 32× 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 52.3415, -167.7554. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.4 97 km SE of Nikolski, Alaska
  2. 4.0 104 km SE of Nikolski, Alaska
  3. 2.9 101 km SE of Nikolski, Alaska
  4. 2.4 109 km SE of Nikolski, Alaska
  5. 4.4 106 km SE of Nikolski, Alaska
  6. 3.6 90 km SE of Nikolski, Alaska
  7. 3.1 Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
  8. 2.7 109 km SE of Nikolski, Alaska
  9. 3.1 91 km SE of Nikolski, Alaska
  10. 2.2 103 km SE of Nikolski, Alaska
  11. 2.3 88 km SE of Nikolski, Alaska
  12. 2.5 102 km SE of Nikolski, Alaska
  13. 2.8 94 km SE of Nikolski, Alaska
  14. 4.7 75 km SE of Nikolski, Alaska
  15. 4.3 86 km SE 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 5.4 on 2016-05-15.

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

On USGS

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