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M 5.1mww

97 km N of Yakutat, Alaska

· 5.0 km deep · released about 670 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 5.1 (mww)
Depth
5.0 km below the surface
Felt
3 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Measured shaking
intensity VI (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Nearest
Yakutat City and Borough, 65 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 136 days ago

This was a moderate earthquake. Shaking at this size can damage poorly built structures close to the epicentre. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 670 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 6.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7.9× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 5.1 about 670 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1,400× 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 60.4206, -139.5600. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Yakutat City and Borough, AK 65 km (41 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Yakutat City and Borough

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 105 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  2. 2.3 106 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  3. 2.1 109 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  4. 2.1 101 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  5. 2.3 105 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  6. 2.7 96 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  7. 2.1 114 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  8. 2.2 116 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  9. 2.2 103 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  10. 2.4 108 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  11. 2.1 111 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  12. 2.1 108 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  13. 2.2 113 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  14. 2.2 114 km N of Yakutat, Alaska
  15. 2.2 118 km N of Yakutat, 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 7.0 on 2025-12-06 — it released about 710 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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