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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

5 km NE of Gleed, Washington

· 11 km deep · released about 30 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Yakima County 29 kmKittitas County 48 kmKlickitat County 93 kmBenton County 96 kmGrant County 102 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
11 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Yakima County, 29 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1637 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 30 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 32× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 30 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 46.6947, -120.5705. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Yakima County, WA 29 km (18 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Yakima County
Kittitas County, WA 48 km (30 mi) S of here earthquakes near Kittitas County
Klickitat County, WA 93 km (58 mi) N of here earthquakes near Klickitat County
Benton County, WA 96 km (60 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Benton County
Grant County, WA 102 km (63 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Grant County
Skamania County, WA 130 km (81 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Skamania County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.6 17 km SW of Nile, Washington
  2. 2.0 20 km SW of Desert Aire, Washington
  3. 1.7 3 km ESE of Kittitas, Washington
  4. 1.6 2 km WNW of Summitview, Washington
  5. 2.1 11 km NNE of Selah, Washington
  6. 1.9 0 km SW of Selah, Washington
  7. 1.8 15 km SW of Thorp, Washington
  8. 1.9 1 km SSW of Selah, Washington
  9. 2.0 9 km S of Ellensburg, Washington
  10. 1.9 9 km S of Ellensburg, Washington
  11. 1.9 9 km S of Ellensburg, Washington
  12. 1.7 5 km ESE of Kittitas, Washington
  13. 1.5 7 km ESE of Tampico, Washington
  14. 1.5 4 km NNW of Summitview, Washington
  15. 1.9 9 km SSW of Ellensburg, 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.

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