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M 3.0ml

4 km ENE of Cathcart, Washington

· 30 km deep · released about 800 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.0 (ml)
Depth
30 km below the surface
Felt
264 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Snohomish County, 30 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2550 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 264 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 800 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 420,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 19,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 13,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 800 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 47.8562, -122.0417. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Snohomish County, WA 30 km (19 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Snohomish County
King County, WA 44 km (27 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near King County
Kitsap County, WA 51 km (32 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Kitsap County
Island County, WA 58 km (36 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Island County
Skagit County, WA 73 km (45 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Skagit County
Pierce County, WA 90 km (56 mi) N of here earthquakes near Pierce County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 3 km ENE of Cathcart, Washington
  2. 1.6 6 km NE of Fall City, Washington
  3. 2.0 6 km E of Lake Marcel-Stillwater, Washington
  4. 2.1 1 km NNE of Bainbridge Island, Washington
  5. 2.7 5 km NE of Fall City, Washington
  6. 1.9 2 km ENE of Granite Falls, Washington
  7. 1.6 5 km NE of Fall City, Washington
  8. 2.3 6 km NE of Fall City, Washington
  9. 2.3 3 km SSW of Clinton, Washington
  10. 1.6 5 km NE of Fall City, Washington
  11. 2.5 6 km NE of Fall City, Washington
  12. 1.7 6 km NE of Fall City, Washington
  13. 3.0 8 km ENE of Fall City, Washington
  14. 1.7 6 km NE of Fall City, Washington
  15. 3.4 9 km NNE of Snoqualmie, 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.6 on 2019-07-12 — it released about 280 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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