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M 1.5ml

Washington

· 15 km deep · released about 5.9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N King County 15 kmSnohomish County 51 kmPierce County 69 kmKitsap County 71 kmChelan County 87 kmKittitas County 94 kmIsland County 95 kmSkagit County 100 kmThurston County 112 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
15 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
King County, 15 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1474 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 5.9 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 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 160× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.9 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 47.5948, -121.7090. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
King County, WA 15 km (9 mi) NE of here earthquakes near King County
Snohomish County, WA 51 km (32 mi) S of here earthquakes near Snohomish County
Pierce County, WA 69 km (43 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Pierce County
Kitsap County, WA 71 km (44 mi) E of here earthquakes near Kitsap County
Chelan County, WA 87 km (54 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Chelan County
Kittitas County, WA 94 km (58 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Kittitas 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. 2.7 1 km S of Roosevelt, Washington
  2. 1.7 3 km N of West Lake Sammamish, Washington
  3. 1.6 2 km W of City of Sammamish, Washington
  4. 1.6 1 km NE of Mirrormont, Washington
  5. 1.9 10 km NE of Lake Marcel-Stillwater, Washington
  6. 2.1 3 km ENE of East Renton Highlands, Washington
  7. 1.6 2 km NNE of Lea Hill, Washington
  8. 2.4 8 km SSW of Sultan, Washington
  9. 1.6 11 km NE of Snoqualmie, Washington
  10. 2.6 11 km NE of Snoqualmie, Washington
  11. 1.7 8 km NE of Fall City, Washington
  12. 2.3 0 km WSW of Bothell West, Washington
  13. 1.9 10 km S of Sultan, Washington
  14. 2.5 9 km NNE of Snoqualmie, Washington
  15. 1.8 11 km ENE of Enumclaw, 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 38,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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