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explosion · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5md

10 km ENE of Coquitlam, Canada

· -0.3 km deep · released about 5.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Whatcom County 81 kmSan Juan County 98 kmSkagit County 112 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (md)
Depth
-0.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Whatcom County, 81 km SE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 915 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

USGS catalogues this as explosion, not an earthquake.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 5.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 180× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.4 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 49.3355, -122.6610. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Whatcom County, WA 81 km (51 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Whatcom County
San Juan County, WA 98 km (61 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near San Juan County
Skagit County, WA 112 km (70 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Skagit County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 0.9 9 km ENE of Abbotsford, Canada
  2. 1.2 12 km ENE of Mission, Canada
  3. 1.6 7 km ENE of Abbotsford, Canada
  4. 1.5 13 km N of Maple Ridge, Canada
  5. 1.5 5 km ENE of Coquitlam, Canada
  6. 1.5 11 km NE of Abbotsford, Canada
  7. 1.5 10 km NE of Abbotsford, Canada
  8. 1.7 12 km E of Mission, Canada
  9. 1.8 12 km ENE of Mission, Canada
  10. 1.5 8 km NE of Abbotsford, Canada
  11. 2.2 9 km SW of White Rock, Canada
  12. 1.7 10 km NE of Abbotsford, Canada
  13. 1.7 10 km NE of Abbotsford, Canada
  14. 1.5 13 km ENE of Mission, Canada
  15. 1.5 12 km W of Chilliwack, 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.

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