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explosion · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

3 km E of Cathcart, Washington

· -0.6 km deep · released about 8.7 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Snohomish County 32 kmKing County 43 kmKitsap County 50 kmIsland County 58 kmSkagit County 74 kmPierce County 88 kmMason County 100 kmChelan County 107 kmSan Juan County 107 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 1.6 (ml)
Depth
-0.6 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Snohomish County, 32 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2588 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

USGS catalogues this as explosion, not an earthquake.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 8.7 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 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.7 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 47.8433, -122.0525. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Snohomish County, WA 32 km (20 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Snohomish County
King County, WA 43 km (26 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near King County
Kitsap County, WA 50 km (31 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 74 km (46 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Skagit County
Pierce County, WA 88 km (55 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. 2.0 2 km SE of Duvall, Washington
  2. 1.8 2 km ENE of Maple Valley, Washington
  3. 1.6 4 km E of Cathcart, Washington
  4. 1.7 2 km ENE of Granite Falls, Washington
  5. 2.2 8 km E of Carnation, Washington
  6. 3.2 3 km NNW of Lake Marcel-Stillwater, Washington
  7. 1.8 1 km E of Granite Falls, Washington
  8. 1.5 1 km NNW of Maple Valley, Washington
  9. 1.6 4 km S of Lake Cavanaugh, Washington
  10. 1.6 5 km WSW of North Bend, Washington
  11. 1.6 3 km NE of Mirrormont, Washington
  12. 1.6 1 km E of Shoreline, Washington
  13. 1.7 8 km SSW of Baring, Washington
  14. 1.9 3 km NW of Lake Marcel-Stillwater, Washington
  15. 1.9 3 km SW of Redmond, 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 26,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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