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M 1.6ml

17 km ESE of Packwood, Washington

· 2.6 km deep · released about 7.1 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Yakima County 55 kmSkamania County 71 kmLewis County 71 kmPierce County 77 kmKittitas County 86 kmKlickitat County 92 kmCowlitz County 102 kmKing County 108 kmThurston County 113 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
2.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Yakima County, 55 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 570 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 7.1 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 2,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.1 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 46.5563, -121.4498. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Yakima County, WA 55 km (34 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Yakima County
Skamania County, WA 71 km (44 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Skamania County
Lewis County, WA 71 km (44 mi) E of here earthquakes near Lewis County
Pierce County, WA 77 km (48 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Pierce County
Kittitas County, WA 86 km (54 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Kittitas County
Klickitat County, WA 92 km (57 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Klickitat County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 22 km ENE of Ashford, Washington
  2. 1.8 23 km ENE of Ashford, Washington
  3. 1.6 25 km ENE of Ashford, Washington
  4. 2.4 17 km SW of Nile, Washington
  5. 2.1 7 km W of Packwood, Washington
  6. 2.9 7 km W of Packwood, Washington
  7. 1.5 24 km ENE of Ashford, Washington
  8. 1.5 25 km ENE of Ashford, Washington
  9. 2.1 24 km ENE of Ashford, Washington
  10. 1.6 5 km SW of Packwood, Washington
  11. 2.0 7 km NE of Ashford, Washington
  12. 2.1 7 km NE of Ashford, Washington
  13. 1.9 10 km ENE of Ashford, Washington
  14. 2.1 12 km SW of Nile, Washington
  15. 1.6 10 km SW of Nile, 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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