79 km SE 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 15 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 11,000× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 4.0 about 15 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 32× 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 54.3180, -162.6035. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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. 2.4 47 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska 16:14 UTC
2. 2.9 102 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska 05:00 UTC
3. 2.7 117 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska 12:14 UTC
4. 2.5 91 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska 19:56 UTC
5. 3.1 85 km SE of False Pass, Alaska 13:34 UTC
6. 2.1 98 km S of King Cove, Alaska 04:02 UTC
7. 2.2 103 km S of King Cove, Alaska 00:51 UTC
8. 2.4 68 km SE of False Pass, Alaska 18:05 UTC
9. 2.6 120 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska 10:12 UTC
10. 2.6 54 km S of King Cove, Alaska 16:45 UTC
11. 2.9 82 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska 15:54 UTC
12. 2.7 75 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska 20:19 UTC
13. 4.6 85 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska 19:20 UTC
14. 2.5 108 km SSE of False Pass, Alaska 17:29 UTC
15. 2.1 42 km SE of False Pass, Alaska 04:18 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 15:30 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 5.0 on 2024-12-09 — it released about 32 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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