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M 3.1ml

129 km S of Sand Point, Alaska

Yes. A magnitude 3.1 earthquake was recorded 129 km S of Sand Point, Alaska, at 6:34 am AKDT on 12 April 2022 (14:34 UTC), 35 km deep.

· 35 km deep · released about 1,300 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.1 (ml)
Depth
35 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Aleutians East Borough, 146 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1607 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 22 km (14 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 1,300 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.1 about 1,300 lb of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1.4× 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 5.8 on 2018-07-19 — about 11,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 16 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

  1. 6.4 101 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska · 43 km NW of this epicentre
  2. 6.4 109 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 48 km W of this epicentre
  3. 6.4 159 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 50 km SW of this epicentre
  4. 6.2 141 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska · 37 km SW of this epicentre
  5. 5.9 131 km S of Sand Point, Alaska · 18 km E of this epicentre

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

Epicentre 54.1809, -160.6775. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection from the epicentre
Aleutians East Borough, AK 146 km (90 mi) NW earthquakes near Aleutians East Borough

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 79 km S of Sand Point, Alaska
  2. 2.5 123 km S of Sand Point, Alaska
  3. 3.0 117 km S of Sand Point, Alaska
  4. 3.0 108 km S of Sand Point, Alaska
  5. 4.5 114 km S of Sand Point, Alaska
  6. 3.8 98 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska
  7. 3.4 Alaska Peninsula
  8. 7.2 2023 Sand Point, Alaska Earthquake
  9. 3.0 85 km S of Sand Point, Alaska
  10. 2.7 117 km S of Sand Point, Alaska
  11. 2.8 111 km SE of King Cove, Alaska
  12. 2.4 109 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska
  13. 2.8 130 km S of Sand Point, Alaska
  14. 2.2 144 km S of Sand Point, Alaska
  15. 2.0 96 km SE of King Cove, 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.

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