146 km S of False Pass, Alaska

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 43 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 4,000× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 4.3 about 43 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 89× 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 53.5404, -163.4145. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 3.9 142 km S of False Pass, Alaska 19:04 UTC
2. 4.0 125 km SSW of False Pass, Alaska 14:46 UTC
3. 2.0 133 km S of False Pass, Alaska 01:37 UTC
4. 2.1 154 km S of False Pass, Alaska 05:34 UTC
5. 2.2 162 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska 06:24 UTC
6. 3.5 112 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska 04:21 UTC
7. 2.8 153 km S of False Pass, Alaska 21:53 UTC
8. 2.5 162 km S of False Pass, Alaska 09:10 UTC
9. 2.2 150 km S of False Pass, Alaska 08:12 UTC
10. 2.6 160 km ESE of Akutan, Alaska 23:09 UTC
11. 3.3 159 km S of False Pass, Alaska 02:54 UTC
12. 2.9 157 km S of False Pass, Alaska 20:03 UTC
13. 2.7 162 km S of False Pass, Alaska 16:59 UTC
14. 2.8 160 km S of False Pass, Alaska 15:01 UTC
15. 3.0 163 km S of False Pass, Alaska 13:16 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 18:01 UTC. 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 5.9 on 2016-10-27 — it released about 250 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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