Earthquake near Enetai, WA

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 57 km (35 mi) from the epicentre. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

Likely felt in: Enetai in town, intensity III · Bremerton 4 km, intensity III · Silverdale 10 km, intensity II · Poulsbo 17 km, intensity II · Seattle 19 km, intensity II · Burien 22 km, intensity II · Shoreline 26 km, intensity II · SeaTac 27 km, intensity II. Estimated for each town centre; each link is that town's own record.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 2.4 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 70,000× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 3,100× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,200× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 3.5 about 2.4 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 5.1× 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 4.1 on 2017-02-23 — about 8.5 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 5 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km:

1. 6.7 1 km ENE of Dash Point, Washington · 32 km SSE of this epicentre Apr 29, 1965
2. 6.1 Puget Sound region, Washington · 24 km SSW of this epicentre Nov 13, 1939
3. 5.8 Puget Sound area, Washington · 42 km SW of this epicentre Feb 15, 1946
4. 5.3 Eastern Olympic Peninsula, Washington · 39 km NW of this epicentre Mar 17, 1904
5. 5.0 3 km WSW of Des Moines, Washington · 28 km SE of this epicentre Jan 29, 1995

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 47.5887, -122.5842. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 1.8 4 km WSW of Inglewood-Finn Hill, Washington 06:24 UTC
2. 1.6 1 km NE of Yarrow Point, Washington 19:35 UTC
3. 2.0 5 km WSW of Chico, Washington 17:17 UTC
4. 1.8 8 km NE of Bainbridge Island, Washington 08:25 UTC
5. 1.7 3 km SW of Port Ludlow, Washington 18:31 UTC
6. 1.6 2 km SE of Maltby, Washington 11:30 UTC
7. 1.8 4 km WNW of Wauna, Washington 05:57 UTC
8. 2.5 2 km ESE of Enetai, Washington 17:12 UTC
9. 2.0 1 km NNW of Maple Valley, Washington 06:53 UTC
10. 1.6 1 km WNW of Maple Valley, Washington 03:54 UTC
11. 1.8 3 km NE of Key Center, Washington 16:49 UTC
12. 2.0 1 km NE of Enetai, Washington 22:21 UTC
13. 1.9 2 km ENE of Enetai, Washington 19:33 UTC
14. 1.5 6 km ENE of Hoodsport, Washington 08:42 UTC
15. 2.1 3 km WSW of Chico, Washington 22:48 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 13:22 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

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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