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M 1.9ml

10 km SE of Marblemount, Washington

· 6.9 km deep · released about 20 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Skagit County 35 kmWhatcom County 55 kmSnohomish County 56 kmChelan County 86 kmIsland County 104 kmKing County 115 kmOkanogan County 118 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
6.9 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Skagit County, 35 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1318 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 20 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 760,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 540,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 48× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 20 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 48.4683, -121.3378. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Skagit County, WA 35 km (22 mi) E of here earthquakes near Skagit County
Whatcom County, WA 55 km (34 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Whatcom County
Snohomish County, WA 56 km (35 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Snohomish County
Chelan County, WA 86 km (53 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Chelan County
Island County, WA 104 km (65 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Island County
King County, WA 115 km (71 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near King County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.1 6 km NE of Oso, Washington
  2. 0.7 6 km SSE of Concrete, Washington
  3. 1.9 7 km SSE of Concrete, Washington
  4. 1.7 1 km WNW of Marblemount, Washington
  5. 2.5 4 km WSW of Concrete, Washington
  6. 2.2 4 km WSW of Concrete, Washington
  7. 1.8 4 km WSW of Concrete, Washington
  8. 2.5 3 km WSW of Concrete, Washington
  9. 1.7 4 km WSW of Concrete, Washington
  10. 2.9 4 km WSW of Concrete, Washington
  11. 2.6 4 km WSW of Concrete, Washington
  12. 1.5 4 km WSW of Concrete, Washington
  13. 1.5 16 km SE of Glacier, Washington
  14. 2.1 43 km ENE of Marblemount, Washington
  15. 1.6 17 km SSE of Glacier, 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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