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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.0ml

6 km NE of Snoqualmie, Washington

· 74 km deep · released about 29 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N King County 10 kmSnohomish County 53 kmPierce County 65 kmKitsap County 66 kmChelan County 92 kmIsland County 93 kmKittitas County 97 kmSkagit County 102 kmThurston County 107 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.0 (ml)
Depth
74 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
King County, 10 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 836 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 29 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 520,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 370,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 33× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.0 about 29 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 47.5743, -121.7777. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
King County, WA 10 km (6 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near King County
Snohomish County, WA 53 km (33 mi) S of here earthquakes near Snohomish County
Pierce County, WA 65 km (40 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Pierce County
Kitsap County, WA 66 km (41 mi) E of here earthquakes near Kitsap County
Chelan County, WA 92 km (57 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Chelan County
Island County, WA 93 km (58 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Island 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. 1.6 3 km SSW of Monroe, Washington
  2. 1.8 2 km ESE of Buckley, Washington
  3. 1.7 0 km NNW of Redmond, Washington
  4. 3.7 12 km E of Greenwater, Washington
  5. 1.8 2 km ESE of Buckley, Washington
  6. 1.7 3 km WSW of Wilderness Rim, Washington
  7. 2.0 2 km NNE of Boulevard Park, Washington
  8. 2.2 7 km ENE of Hobart, Washington
  9. 1.8 2 km SSE of Woodinville, Washington
  10. 2.1 7 km ENE of Fall City, Washington
  11. 1.6 1 km ESE of Inglewood-Finn Hill, Washington
  12. 1.9 11 km E of Greenwater, Washington
  13. 3.3 8 km NNE of Snoqualmie, Washington
  14. 2.3 1 km NE of Lakeland North, Washington
  15. 2.4 8 km ENE of Fall City, 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 7,700 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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