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M 3.4ml

20 km ESE of Packwood, Washington

· 2.0 km deep · released about 1.8 tons of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Yakima County 53 kmSkamania County 70 kmLewis County 73 kmPierce County 80 kmKittitas County 87 kmKlickitat County 89 kmCowlitz County 104 kmKing County 111 kmHood River County 115 km
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When
Magnitude
M 3.4 (ml)
Depth
2.0 km below the surface
Felt
33 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
Measured shaking
intensity III (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Yakima County, 53 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1565 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 33 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 1.8 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.4 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 92,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 4,100× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,900× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.4 about 1.8 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 3.8× more

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 46.5333, -121.4190. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Yakima County, WA 53 km (33 mi) W of here earthquakes near Yakima County
Skamania County, WA 70 km (43 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Skamania County
Lewis County, WA 73 km (46 mi) E of here earthquakes near Lewis County
Pierce County, WA 80 km (50 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Pierce County
Kittitas County, WA 87 km (54 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Kittitas County
Klickitat County, WA 89 km (55 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Klickitat County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 Washington
  2. 1.6 22 km ENE of Ashford, Washington
  3. 1.8 23 km ENE of Ashford, Washington
  4. 1.6 25 km ENE of Ashford, Washington
  5. 2.4 17 km SW of Nile, Washington
  6. 2.1 7 km W of Packwood, Washington
  7. 2.9 7 km W of Packwood, Washington
  8. 1.5 24 km ENE of Ashford, Washington
  9. 1.5 25 km ENE of Ashford, Washington
  10. 2.1 24 km ENE of Ashford, Washington
  11. 1.6 5 km SW of Packwood, Washington
  12. 1.9 10 km ENE of Ashford, Washington
  13. 2.1 12 km SW of Nile, Washington
  14. 1.6 10 km SW of Nile, Washington
  15. 1.6 23 km ENE of Ashford, 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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