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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

1 km SW of Duvall, Washington

· 7.2 km deep · released about 6.2 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
7.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
King County, 30 km SSE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 902 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 6.2 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 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,700,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 150× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 6.2 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 47.7358, -121.9958. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
King County, WA 30 km (19 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near King County
Snohomish County, WA 39 km (25 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Snohomish County
Kitsap County, WA 50 km (31 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Kitsap County
Island County, WA 69 km (43 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Island County
Pierce County, WA 77 km (48 mi) N of here earthquakes near Pierce County
Skagit County, WA 85 km (53 mi) S of here earthquakes near Skagit County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 1 km SW of West Lake Stevens, Washington
  2. 1.6 7 km NE of Fall City, Washington
  3. 1.6 2 km NE of Granite Falls, Washington
  4. 1.9 7 km ENE of Fall City, Washington
  5. 2.8 8 km ENE of Fall City, Washington
  6. 2.1 7 km ENE of Fall City, Washington
  7. 3.5 9 km NE of Snoqualmie, Washington
  8. 1.8 7 km NE of Fall City, Washington
  9. 1.8 7 km ENE of Lake Roesiger, Washington
  10. 1.5 5 km E of Carnation, Washington
  11. 1.6 1 km NE of Mill Creek, Washington
  12. 1.9 3 km ESE of Lake Roesiger, Washington
  13. 2.2 3 km SW of Roosevelt, Washington
  14. 1.7 5 km WSW of Clinton, Washington
  15. 2.4 5 km ENE of Tanner, 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 36,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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