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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

8 km WSW of Home, Washington

· 27 km deep · released about 6.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Mason County 25 kmThurston County 36 kmKitsap County 46 kmPierce County 59 kmGrays Harbor County 74 kmJefferson County 78 kmKing County 82 kmLewis County 84 kmIsland County 101 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 1.6 (ml)
Depth
27 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Mason County, 25 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1475 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 47.2578, -122.8732. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Mason County, WA 25 km (15 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Mason County
Thurston County, WA 36 km (22 mi) N of here earthquakes near Thurston County
Kitsap County, WA 46 km (28 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Kitsap County
Pierce County, WA 59 km (37 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Pierce County
Grays Harbor County, WA 74 km (46 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Grays Harbor County
Jefferson County, WA 78 km (49 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Jefferson County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.8 4 km SSE of Seabeck, Washington
  2. 1.7 4 km WNW of Vashon, Washington
  3. 1.7 1 km WNW of Chico, Washington
  4. 1.9 10 km WNW of Allyn, Washington
  5. 1.6 8 km WSW of Tumwater, Washington
  6. 3.0 1 km NE of Gorst, Washington
  7. 3.1 Puget Sound region, Washington
  8. 2.1 10 km WNW of Longbranch, Washington
  9. 1.8 Olympic Peninsula, Washington
  10. 1.5 Puget Sound region, Washington
  11. 1.8 4 km S of Seabeck, Washington
  12. 1.7 Puget Sound region, Washington
  13. 2.1 14 km N of Hoodsport, Washington
  14. 1.7 Puget Sound region, Washington
  15. 2.5 11 km SW of Brinnon, 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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