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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

2 km ENE of Port Angeles East, Washington

· 43 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Jefferson County 37 kmClallam County 41 kmSan Juan County 47 kmIsland County 50 kmKitsap County 74 kmMason County 85 kmGrays Harbor County 117 kmSnohomish County 117 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
43 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Jefferson County, 37 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1059 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 7.6 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 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× 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 7.6 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 48.1112, -123.3423. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Jefferson County, WA 37 km (23 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Jefferson County
Clallam County, WA 41 km (25 mi) E of here earthquakes near Clallam County
San Juan County, WA 47 km (29 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near San Juan County
Island County, WA 50 km (31 mi) W of here earthquakes near Island County
Kitsap County, WA 74 km (46 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Kitsap County
Mason County, WA 85 km (53 mi) N of here earthquakes near Mason County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 6 km ENE of Bell Hill, Washington
  2. 1.8 34 km NE of Amanda Park, Washington
  3. 1.6 8 km S of Port Hadlock-Irondale, Washington
  4. 2.5 11 km SSW of River Road, Washington
  5. 1.9 14 km NNE of Port Angeles East, Washington
  6. 1.8 21 km S of Port Angeles East, Washington
  7. 2.4 40 km NE of Amanda Park, Washington
  8. 2.4 11 km S of Metchosin, Canada
  9. 2.0 35 km NE of Amanda Park, Washington
  10. 1.7 2 km S of River Road, Washington
  11. 1.6 2 km W of Port Townsend, Washington
  12. 1.6 3 km W of Quilcene, Washington
  13. 1.6 3 km N of Langford, Canada
  14. 1.8 10 km S of Victoria, Canada
  15. 2.3 5 km SSE of Esquimalt, Canada

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 2018-11-19 — it released about 5,200 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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