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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

1 km ESE of Issaquah, Washington

· 11 km deep · released about 6.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N King County 14 kmKitsap County 49 kmPierce County 54 kmSnohomish County 62 kmIsland County 86 kmMason County 89 kmThurston County 90 kmSkagit County 109 kmLewis County 109 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
King County, 14 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1846 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 6.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 150× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 6.4 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 47.5260, -122.0155. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
King County, WA 14 km (9 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near King County
Kitsap County, WA 49 km (31 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Kitsap County
Pierce County, WA 54 km (33 mi) N of here earthquakes near Pierce County
Snohomish County, WA 62 km (38 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Snohomish County
Island County, WA 86 km (53 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Island County
Mason County, WA 89 km (55 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mason 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. 1.5 0 km SSE of Wilderness Rim, Washington
  2. 1.7 4 km SW of White Center, Washington
  3. 1.8 3 km WSW of White Center, Washington
  4. 2.1 5 km SW of Black Diamond, Washington
  5. 1.8 3 km NNW of Picnic Point, Washington
  6. 1.5 5 km SW of Des Moines, Washington
  7. 1.8 5 km SW of Des Moines, Washington
  8. 1.6 6 km SW of Sultan, Washington
  9. 1.6 Washington
  10. 1.6 Puget Sound region, Washington
  11. 1.5 Washington
  12. 1.8 2 km SSE of Lake Forest Park, Washington
  13. 2.0 Washington
  14. 3.1 6 km SSE of Black Diamond, Washington
  15. 1.9 12 km ESE of Enumclaw, 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 35,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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