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explosion · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

4 km E of Granite Falls, Washington

· -0.4 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Snohomish County 11 kmSkagit County 46 kmIsland County 57 kmKing County 66 kmKitsap County 74 kmWhatcom County 85 kmChelan County 99 kmSan Juan County 100 kmPierce County 116 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 1.7 (ml)
Depth
-0.4 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Snohomish County, 11 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1516 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

USGS catalogues this as explosion, not an earthquake.

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 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 89× 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 48.0817, -121.9067. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Snohomish County, WA 11 km (7 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Snohomish County
Skagit County, WA 46 km (29 mi) S of here earthquakes near Skagit County
Island County, WA 57 km (36 mi) E of here earthquakes near Island County
King County, WA 66 km (41 mi) N of here earthquakes near King County
Kitsap County, WA 74 km (46 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Kitsap County
Whatcom County, WA 85 km (53 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

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

  1. 2.3 0 km WSW of Bothell West, Washington
  2. 1.6 2 km E of Granite Falls, Washington
  3. 1.9 10 km S of Sultan, Washington
  4. 1.7 15 km NE of Lake Cavanaugh, Washington
  5. 1.9 4 km SW of Big Lake, Washington
  6. 1.6 2 km E of Granite Falls, Washington
  7. 1.9 6 km W of Lake Cavanaugh, Washington
  8. 2.0 15 km SSW of Concrete, Washington
  9. 1.6 2 km E of Granite Falls, Washington
  10. 1.7 3 km NNW of Edmonds, Washington
  11. 1.6 4 km NW of Edmonds, Washington
  12. 2.3 0 km E of Esperance, Washington
  13. 2.0 14 km NE of Lake Cavanaugh, Washington
  14. 2.3 15 km NE of Lake Cavanaugh, Washington
  15. 1.9 14 km S of May Creek, 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 21,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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