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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.9ml

10 km S of Sultan, Washington

· 16 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N King County 31 kmSnohomish County 32 kmKitsap County 65 kmIsland County 78 kmSkagit County 81 kmPierce County 84 kmChelan County 89 kmKittitas County 111 kmMason County 113 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
King County, 31 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1098 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 21 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 5.8 710,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 45× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 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 47.7655, -121.8017. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
King County, WA 31 km (19 mi) N of here earthquakes near King County
Snohomish County, WA 32 km (20 mi) S of here earthquakes near Snohomish County
Kitsap County, WA 65 km (40 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Kitsap County
Island County, WA 78 km (49 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Island County
Skagit County, WA 81 km (50 mi) S of here earthquakes near Skagit County
Pierce County, WA 84 km (52 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Pierce County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 1 km ESE of Three Lakes, Washington
  2. 1.6 10 km NNE of Snoqualmie, Washington
  3. 2.5 10 km NE of Snoqualmie, Washington
  4. 2.0 0 km WSW of Lynnwood, Washington
  5. 1.7 3 km N of Woods Creek, Washington
  6. 1.9 11 km NE of Snoqualmie, Washington
  7. 1.7 4 km E of Lake Bosworth, Washington
  8. 1.6 2 km ENE of Granite Falls, Washington
  9. 1.9 3 km SSE of Woods Creek, Washington
  10. 1.6 4 km N of Woods Creek, Washington
  11. 1.7 1 km NE of White Center, Washington
  12. 2.2 3 km SW of Redmond, Washington
  13. 1.5 3 km E of Granite Falls, Washington
  14. 2.7 2 km E of Redmond, Washington
  15. 2.0 6 km NE of Snoqualmie, 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 10,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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