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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.3ml

169 km SE of Atka, Alaska

· 35 km deep · released about 1.3 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.3 (ml)
Depth
35 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1408 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 1.3 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 130,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 5,600× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 4,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.3 about 1.3 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 2.8× 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 51.2998, -172.2173. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.8 202 km SE of Atka, Alaska
  2. 3.3 137 km SE of Atka, Alaska
  3. 3.1 193 km SE of Atka, Alaska
  4. 3.4 159 km SE of Atka, Alaska
  5. 3.2 172 km SE of Atka, Alaska
  6. 2.8 141 km SE of Atka, Alaska
  7. 3.2 139 km SE of Atka, Alaska
  8. 3.3 215 km SE of Atka, Alaska
  9. 3.3 140 km SE of Atka, Alaska
  10. 3.7 195 km SE of Atka, Alaska
  11. 3.7 126 km ESE of Atka, Alaska
  12. 2.7 211 km SE of Atka, Alaska
  13. 4.3 178 km ESE of Atka, Alaska
  14. 2.7 145 km SE of Atka, Alaska
  15. 3.1 173 km ESE of Atka, 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 4.2 on 2016-11-20 — it released about 22 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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