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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.8ml

5 km W of Wilderness Rim, Washington

· 18 km deep · released about 17 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N King County 4 kmPierce County 51 kmKitsap County 64 kmSnohomish County 67 kmThurston County 95 kmKittitas County 95 kmIsland County 100 kmMason County 101 kmChelan County 102 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.8 (ml)
Depth
18 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
King County, 4 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2197 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 17 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.8 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 870,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 620,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 55× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.8 about 17 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 47.4532, -121.8363. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
King County, WA 4 km (3 mi) S of here earthquakes near King County
Pierce County, WA 51 km (31 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Pierce County
Kitsap County, WA 64 km (40 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Kitsap County
Snohomish County, WA 67 km (42 mi) S of here earthquakes near Snohomish County
Thurston County, WA 95 km (59 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Thurston County
Kittitas County, WA 95 km (59 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Kittitas County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.8 0 km S of Boulevard Park, Washington
  2. 2.1 0 km SSW of Boulevard Park, Washington
  3. 2.2 2 km SSE of Carnation, Washington
  4. 1.6 0 km WSW of Boulevard Park, Washington
  5. 1.9 13 km S of May Creek, Washington
  6. 1.6 0 km NW of Boulevard Park, Washington
  7. 1.5 1 km SSW of Carnation, Washington
  8. 1.5 13 km W of Greenwater, Washington
  9. 1.6 4 km SSW of May Creek, Washington
  10. 1.5 3 km NE of Fall City, Washington
  11. 2.4 11 km E of Tanner, 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. 1.9 3 km NNW of Fall City, 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 13,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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