Earthquake near Yarrow Point, WA

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

At this magnitude and depth it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. 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.

Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Kirkland, Clyde Hill, Medina, Bellevue, Redmond, Inglewood-Finn Hill.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 7.8 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,900,000× the energy of this one
2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 120× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.8 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.

For this area

No earthquake of M4 or more has been recorded within 50 km since our catalogue begins in 2016.

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 · 40 km SSW of this epicentre Apr 29, 1965
2. 5.4 8 km NNE of Lake Marcel-Stillwater, Washington · 27 km ENE of this epicentre May 3, 1996
3. 5.2 9 km NE of Lake Marcel-Stillwater, Washington · 30 km ENE of this epicentre Jul 18, 1932
4. 5.0 4 km ENE of Machias, Washington · 41 km NNE of this epicentre May 15, 1954
5. 5.0 3 km WSW of Des Moines, Washington · 32 km SSW 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 47.6577, -122.2017. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 1.7 6 km W of Burley, Washington 07:31 UTC
2. 1.6 2 km S of West Lake Sammamish, Washington 16:43 UTC
3. 2.7 4 km WSW of Mercer Island, Washington 22:35 UTC
4. 2.3 6 km W of Burley, Washington 18:53 UTC
5. 1.8 1 km SSW of Esperance, Washington 14:34 UTC
6. 1.9 5 km S of Port Ludlow, Washington 21:36 UTC
7. 2.3 2 km WNW of Redmond, Washington 17:17 UTC
8. 1.7 2 km N of Mercer Island, Washington 12:51 UTC
9. 1.6 1 km NE of Maple Valley, Washington 12:20 UTC
10. 1.6 1 km WNW of Maple Valley, Washington 12:09 UTC
11. 2.5 0 km S of Esperance, Washington 05:52 UTC
12. 1.9 7 km SSW of Clinton, Washington 00:59 UTC
13. 1.6 1 km S of Lake Marcel-Stillwater, Washington 15:16 UTC
14. 1.5 4 km SSE of Vashon, Washington 23:22 UTC
15. 1.7 3 km SSW of Erlands Point-Kitsap Lake, Washington 13:31 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 08:38 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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