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M 5.0mww

121 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska

· 26 km deep · released about 480 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 5.0 (mww)
Depth
26 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Measured shaking
intensity II (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Aleutians East Borough, 128 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1044 days ago

This was a moderate earthquake. Shaking at this size can damage poorly built structures close to the epicentre. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 480 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 6.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 5.0 about 480 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1,000× 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 54.2740, -160.9245. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Aleutians East Borough, AK 128 km (80 mi) SSE 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

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

  1. 2.7 84 km SE of King Cove, Alaska
  2. 2.1 96 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska
  3. 2.7 109 km S of Sand Point, Alaska
  4. 1.8 80 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska
  5. 2.7 89 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska
  6. 2.2 78 km S of Sand Point, Alaska
  7. 1.7 95 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska
  8. 1.7 91 km SE of King Cove, Alaska
  9. 2.2 136 km S of Sand Point, Alaska
  10. 2.7 107 km SE of King Cove, Alaska
  11. 2.8 78 km SE of King Cove, Alaska
  12. 2.6 85 km SSW of Sand Point, Alaska
  13. 2.6 102 km SE of King Cove, Alaska
  14. 2.2 81 km SE of King Cove, Alaska
  15. 2.0 88 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 7.2 on 2023-07-16 — it released about 2,000 times the energy of this one.

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

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