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M 3.4ml

34 km W of Okanagan Falls, Canada

· 7.5 km deep · released about 1.9 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.4 (ml)
Depth
7.5 km below the surface
Felt
20 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Okanogan County, 95 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 360 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 20 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.9 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 4,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,800× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 1.9 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 4× 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 49.3816, -120.0345. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Okanogan County, WA 95 km (59 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Okanogan County
Ferry County, WA 149 km (93 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Ferry County

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. 2.2 15 km S of Princeton, Canada
  2. 2.0 8 km S of Princeton, Canada
  3. 2.0 8 km S of Princeton, Canada
  4. 2.2 13 km S of Princeton, Canada
  5. 2.1 11 km S of Princeton, Canada
  6. 2.2 14 km S of Princeton, Canada
  7. 1.9 12 km S of Princeton, Canada
  8. 2.0 18 km SSE of Princeton, Canada
  9. 1.9 11 km S of Princeton, Canada
  10. 2.1 11 km SSE of Princeton, Canada
  11. 2.3 14 km S of Princeton, Canada
  12. 2.2 9 km S of Princeton, Canada
  13. 2.1 10 km S of Princeton, Canada
  14. 2.1 14 km S of Princeton, Canada
  15. 2.3 11 km SSE of Princeton, Canada

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.

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