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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

2 km S of Sultan, Washington

· 17 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Snohomish County 24 kmKing County 39 kmKitsap County 66 kmIsland County 73 kmSkagit County 73 kmChelan County 90 kmPierce County 91 kmWhatcom County 111 kmMason County 115 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
17 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Snohomish County, 24 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 855 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 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 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 47.8400, -121.8193. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Snohomish County, WA 24 km (15 mi) S of here earthquakes near Snohomish County
King County, WA 39 km (24 mi) N of here earthquakes near King County
Kitsap County, WA 66 km (41 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Kitsap County
Island County, WA 73 km (45 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Island County
Skagit County, WA 73 km (45 mi) S of here earthquakes near Skagit County
Chelan County, WA 90 km (56 mi) W of here earthquakes near Chelan County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 4 km WSW of Darrington, Washington
  2. 1.7 0 km NNW of Redmond, Washington
  3. 1.7 2 km ENE of Granite Falls, Washington
  4. 1.7 3 km WSW of Wilderness Rim, Washington
  5. 2.2 7 km ENE of Hobart, Washington
  6. 1.8 2 km SSE of Woodinville, Washington
  7. 2.1 7 km ENE of Fall City, Washington
  8. 1.6 1 km ESE of Inglewood-Finn Hill, Washington
  9. 3.3 8 km NNE of Snoqualmie, Washington
  10. 2.4 8 km ENE of Fall City, Washington
  11. 1.5 2 km SSW of Monroe, Washington
  12. 2.1 7 km ENE of Fall City, Washington
  13. 1.7 7 km NE of Fall City, Washington
  14. 2.3 1 km SW of West Lake Stevens, Washington
  15. 1.6 7 km NE 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 30,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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