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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

1 km S of Enetai, Washington

· 27 km deep · released about 6.4 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
27 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kitsap County, 8 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1782 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 47.5723, -122.5963. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kitsap County, WA 8 km (5 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Kitsap County
Mason County, WA 50 km (31 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mason County
King County, WA 58 km (36 mi) W of here earthquakes near King County
Island County, WA 65 km (41 mi) S of here earthquakes near Island County
Pierce County, WA 67 km (42 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Pierce County
Thurston County, WA 73 km (45 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Thurston 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. 1.6 Puget Sound region, Washington
  2. 1.5 4 km SSW of Clinton, Washington
  3. 1.7 4 km SW of White Center, Washington
  4. 1.8 3 km WSW of White Center, Washington
  5. 1.8 3 km NNW of Picnic Point, Washington
  6. 1.9 1 km SSW of Erlands Point-Kitsap Lake, Washington
  7. 2.2 8 km SSW of Grapeview, Washington
  8. 1.5 5 km SW of Des Moines, Washington
  9. 1.8 5 km SW of Des Moines, Washington
  10. 1.6 Puget Sound region, Washington
  11. 1.6 8 km WSW of Home, Washington
  12. 1.5 7 km WNW of Lofall, Washington
  13. 1.8 2 km SSE of Lake Forest Park, Washington
  14. 1.9 7 km SSW of Port Ludlow, Washington
  15. 1.9 7 km WNW of Lofall, 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 4.1 on 2017-02-23 — it released about 6,500 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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