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explosion · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6md

2 km NNE of Woods Creek, Washington

· -0.6 km deep · released about 7.1 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (md)
Depth
-0.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Snohomish County, 20 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1306 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

USGS catalogues this as explosion, not an earthquake.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 7.1 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,100,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.1 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 47.8958, -121.8877. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Snohomish County, WA 20 km (12 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Snohomish County
King County, WA 45 km (28 mi) N of here earthquakes near King County
Kitsap County, WA 64 km (40 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Kitsap County
Island County, WA 65 km (40 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Island County
Skagit County, WA 67 km (41 mi) S of here earthquakes near Skagit County
Chelan County, WA 95 km (59 mi) W of here earthquakes near Chelan County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 5 km SSE of Seattle, Washington
  2. 1.9 10 km NE of Lake Marcel-Stillwater, Washington
  3. 1.6 2 km W of Clinton, Washington
  4. 1.7 5 km NNE of Oso, Washington
  5. 2.1 3 km ENE of East Renton Highlands, Washington
  6. 1.5 3 km SSE of Stanwood, Washington
  7. 1.6 3 km NNW of Oso, Washington
  8. 2.4 8 km SSW of Sultan, Washington
  9. 1.6 11 km NE of Snoqualmie, Washington
  10. 2.1 1 km NW of Meadowdale, Washington
  11. 1.6 Washington
  12. 2.6 11 km NE of Snoqualmie, Washington
  13. 1.7 8 km NE of Fall City, Washington
  14. 1.6 6 km WSW of Lake Cavanaugh, Washington
  15. 2.3 0 km WSW of Bothell West, 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 32,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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