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M 1.6ml

2 km ESE of Wilderness Rim, Washington

· 19 km deep · released about 7.1 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N King County 9 kmPierce County 53 kmSnohomish County 69 kmKitsap County 72 kmKittitas County 87 kmChelan County 97 kmThurston County 99 kmIsland County 106 kmLewis County 107 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
19 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
King County, 9 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 679 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 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 47.4352, -121.7417. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
King County, WA 9 km (6 mi) SE of here earthquakes near King County
Pierce County, WA 53 km (33 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Pierce County
Snohomish County, WA 69 km (43 mi) S of here earthquakes near Snohomish County
Kitsap County, WA 72 km (45 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Kitsap County
Kittitas County, WA 87 km (54 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Kittitas County
Chelan County, WA 97 km (60 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Chelan 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. 1.7 4 km NNW of Fall City, Washington
  2. 1.5 1 km SW of Duvall, Washington
  3. 1.8 3 km WSW of Wilderness Rim, Washington
  4. 2.7 1 km NW of Redmond, Washington
  5. 1.9 0 km E of East Renton Highlands, Washington
  6. 1.8 1 km WNW of Mirrormont, Washington
  7. 2.5 9 km NNE of Snoqualmie, Washington
  8. 3.1 7 km WSW of Snoqualmie, Washington
  9. 1.6 5 km S of Wilderness Rim, Washington
  10. 1.6 2 km WNW of Mirrormont, Washington
  11. 1.6 12 km ESE of Enumclaw, Washington
  12. 3.4 13 km E of Lake Marcel-Stillwater, Washington
  13. 1.9 7 km NE of Fall City, Washington
  14. 1.6 2 km SSW of Mirrormont, Washington
  15. 1.6 4 km E of Duvall, 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.

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