QuakeIndex

Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 3.0ml

14 km N of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska

· 186 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

Felt it? Tell USGS Check my area
10 km30 km60 km120 km N Aleutians East Borough 110 km
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
Magnitude
M 3.0 (ml)
Depth
186 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Aleutians East Borough, 110 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1380 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 950 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 950 lb of TNT

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 56.1285, -161.2098. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aleutians East Borough, AK 110 km (68 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Aleutians East Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 32 km ESE of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  2. 1.8 29 km WSW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  3. 2.2 29 km S of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  4. 2.8 17 km SSW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  5. 2.8 29 km SSE of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  6. 2.0 12 km SSE of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  7. 2.6 31 km SSW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  8. 2.5 14 km WNW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  9. 4.1 26 km SW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  10. 2.2 5 km SSE of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  11. 2.6 34 km ESE of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  12. 2.2 25 km W of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  13. 2.9 4 km SSE of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  14. 3.0 23 km SW of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
  15. 2.4 10 km ENE of Nelson Lagoon, 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 5.2 on 2022-04-22 — it released about 2,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.