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M 2.1ml

12 km W of Moses Lake North, Washington

· 19 km deep · released about 37 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Grant County 2 kmDouglas County 62 kmAdams County 76 kmFranklin County 86 kmLincoln County 90 kmKittitas County 91 kmBenton County 108 kmChelan County 113 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
19 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Grant County, 2 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2886 days ago

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

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 37 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 410,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 290,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 26× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 37 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 47.2015, -119.4795. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Grant County, WA 2 km (1 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Grant County
Douglas County, WA 62 km (39 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Douglas County
Adams County, WA 76 km (47 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Adams County
Franklin County, WA 86 km (53 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Franklin County
Lincoln County, WA 90 km (56 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Kittitas County, WA 91 km (56 mi) E of here earthquakes near Kittitas County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 5 km W of Warden, Washington
  2. 1.6 20 km SSE of Mansfield, Washington
  3. 1.9 5 km W of Warden, Washington
  4. 2.2 14 km NW of Othello, Washington
  5. 1.7 10 km NW of Quincy, Washington
  6. 1.5 11 km SW of Royal City, Washington
  7. 1.5 3 km WSW of Warden, Washington
  8. 1.9 1 km WNW of Warden, Washington
  9. 2.0 14 km ENE of Royal City, Washington
  10. 2.0 9 km SW of Royal City, Washington
  11. 2.5 11 km SW of Royal City, Washington
  12. 3.3 11 km SW of Royal City, 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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