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M 2.1ml

Washington

· 13 km deep · released about 40 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N King County 15 kmSnohomish County 50 kmKitsap County 69 kmPierce County 70 kmChelan County 88 kmIsland County 93 kmKittitas County 96 kmSkagit County 99 kmThurston County 112 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
11 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
King County, 15 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2108 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 11 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 40 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 5.8 380,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 270,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 24× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 40 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 47.6080, -121.7325. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
King County, WA 15 km (9 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near King County
Snohomish County, WA 50 km (31 mi) S of here earthquakes near Snohomish County
Kitsap County, WA 69 km (43 mi) E of here earthquakes near Kitsap County
Pierce County, WA 70 km (43 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Pierce County
Chelan County, WA 88 km (55 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Chelan County
Island County, WA 93 km (58 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Island County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 2 km SE of Ravensdale, Washington
  2. 1.7 6 km ENE of Lake Roesiger, Washington
  3. 1.7 1 km NNE of Woods Creek, Washington
  4. 2.2 2 km SSE of Carnation, Washington
  5. 1.9 13 km S of May Creek, Washington
  6. 1.5 1 km SSW of Carnation, Washington
  7. 1.9 5 km NW of North Sultan, Washington
  8. 1.6 4 km SSW of May Creek, Washington
  9. 1.5 3 km NE of Fall City, Washington
  10. 2.4 11 km E of Tanner, Washington
  11. 1.6 5 km NNE of Woods Creek, Washington
  12. 1.6 13 km W of Greenwater, Washington
  13. 1.9 1 km NW of West Lake Sammamish, Washington
  14. 2.5 17 km E of Carnation, Washington
  15. 1.5 4 km N of Woods Creek, 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 5,600 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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