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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.1ml

3 km ENE of East Renton Highlands, Washington

· 16 km deep · released about 51 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N King County 18 kmKitsap County 46 kmPierce County 51 kmSnohomish County 65 kmMason County 85 kmThurston County 85 kmIsland County 86 kmLewis County 105 kmSkagit County 112 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
16 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
King County, 18 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1012 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 51 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 210,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 19× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 51 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 47.5032, -122.0673. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
King County, WA 18 km (11 mi) W of here earthquakes near King County
Kitsap County, WA 46 km (29 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Kitsap County
Pierce County, WA 51 km (31 mi) N of here earthquakes near Pierce County
Snohomish County, WA 65 km (41 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Snohomish County
Mason County, WA 85 km (53 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mason County
Thurston County, WA 85 km (53 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Thurston County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 11 km NE of Snoqualmie, Washington
  2. 1.7 4 km WNW of Bainbridge Island, Washington
  3. 1.5 5 km WSW of Black Diamond, Washington
  4. 1.7 1 km WSW of Burien, Washington
  5. 1.6 2 km N of Edmonds, Washington
  6. 1.9 3 km SE of Fife, Washington
  7. 1.5 2 km ESE of Buckley, Washington
  8. 1.9 3 km SSE of Woods Creek, Washington
  9. 1.6 4 km N of Woods Creek, Washington
  10. 1.8 3 km S of Southworth, Washington
  11. 1.7 12 km E of Wilkeson, Washington
  12. 1.7 1 km NE of White Center, Washington
  13. 1.8 1 km E of Enetai, Washington
  14. 2.2 3 km SW of Redmond, Washington
  15. 1.7 2 km NW of Manchester, 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 4,400 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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