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M 2.0ml

Vancouver Island, Canada region

· 34 km deep · released about 26 lb of TNT

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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
34 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Clallam County, 99 km ESE
Nearest mapped fault
Cascadia fold and fault belt, 11 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1463 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 26 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 5.8 580,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 410,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 36× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 26 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 48.5197, -125.0743. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Clallam County, WA 99 km (61 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Clallam County
Jefferson County, WA 140 km (87 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Jefferson 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. 0.6 12 km SSE of Neah Bay, Washington
  2. 0.7 12 km SSE of Neah Bay, Washington
  3. 3.2 21 km SSW of Ucluelet, Canada
  4. 1.6 39 km NNW of Neah Bay, Washington
  5. 2.3 33 km NNW of Neah Bay, Washington
  6. 2.5 23 km W of Neah Bay, Washington
  7. 1.6 12 km SW of Neah Bay, Washington
  8. 1.6 7 km WNW of Neah Bay, Washington
  9. 1.8 10 km N of Neah Bay, Washington
  10. 1.9 28 km WSW of Neah Bay, Washington
  11. 1.6 33 km NNW of Neah Bay, Washington
  12. 1.8 10 km WNW of Neah Bay, Washington
  13. 1.7 26 km ESE of Ucluelet, Canada
  14. 1.6 5 km N of Neah Bay, Washington
  15. 2.3 23 km SE of Ucluelet, Canada

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 4.5 on 2020-01-24 — 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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