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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

6 km ENE of Lake Roesiger, Washington

· 16 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Snohomish County 8 kmSkagit County 54 kmKing County 58 kmIsland County 63 kmKitsap County 73 kmWhatcom County 92 kmChelan County 93 kmSan Juan County 108 kmPierce County 109 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Snohomish County, 8 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 567 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 11 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 930,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 83× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 48.0113, -121.8470. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Snohomish County, WA 8 km (5 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Snohomish County
Skagit County, WA 54 km (33 mi) S of here earthquakes near Skagit County
King County, WA 58 km (36 mi) N of here earthquakes near King County
Island County, WA 63 km (39 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Island County
Kitsap County, WA 73 km (45 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Kitsap County
Whatcom County, WA 92 km (57 mi) S of here earthquakes near Whatcom County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.2 7 km ENE of Oso, Washington
  2. 1.5 4 km NE of Oso, Washington
  3. 1.8 5 km ENE of Oso, Washington
  4. 3.4 6 km ENE of Oso, Washington
  5. 1.6 11 km SSW of Gold Bar, Washington
  6. 1.5 1 km NNW of Granite Falls, Washington
  7. 2.4 7 km ENE of Fall City, Washington
  8. 2.0 7 km NE of Fall City, Washington
  9. 1.5 3 km NNE of Picnic Point, Washington
  10. 1.6 1 km SW of Bothell East, Washington
  11. 2.9 7 km NE of Darrington, Washington
  12. 1.6 2 km ENE of Granite Falls, Washington
  13. 1.8 1 km SW of Monroe North, Washington
  14. 2.0 4 km W of Lake Cavanaugh, Washington
  15. 1.7 1 km NNW of Silvana, 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 19,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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