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explosion · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

3 km W of Yacolt, Washington

· -0.8 km deep · released about 6.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Clark County 11 kmMultnomah County 35 kmCowlitz County 41 kmSkamania County 43 kmColumbia County 49 kmWashington County 61 kmHood River County 73 kmLewis County 80 kmClackamas County 81 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
-0.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Clark County, 11 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3316 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

USGS catalogues this as explosion, not an earthquake.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 6.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 150× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.4 lb of TNT

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 45.8650, -122.4545. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Clark County, WA 11 km (7 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Clark County
Multnomah County, OR 35 km (22 mi) N of here earthquakes near Multnomah County
Cowlitz County, WA 41 km (25 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Cowlitz County
Skamania County, WA 43 km (26 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Skamania County
Columbia County, OR 49 km (31 mi) E of here earthquakes near Columbia County
Washington County, OR 61 km (38 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Washington County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 16 km ESE of Yacolt, Washington
  2. 1.6 24 km NNW of Carson, Washington
  3. 1.8 18 km ESE of Castle Rock, Washington
  4. 1.5 25 km S of Mossyrock, Washington
  5. 1.7 5 km WNW of Deer Island, Oregon
  6. 1.7 24 km NNW of Carson, Washington
  7. 1.8 3 km NNW of Mill Plain, Washington
  8. 1.7 4 km WSW of Yacolt, Washington
  9. 1.6 1 km N of West Haven, Oregon
  10. 1.5 11 km NNE of Sandy, Oregon
  11. 1.6 1 km WSW of West Slope, Oregon
  12. 2.0 4 km E of West Side Highway, Washington
  13. 1.9 37 km SSE of Morton, Washington
  14. 1.6 1 km NNE of Saint Helens, Oregon
  15. 1.6 Washington

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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