Earthquake near Edmonds, WA

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

At this magnitude and depth it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. In Edmonds, 2 km away, the estimate is intensity I (not felt). Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Woodway, Esperance, Lynnwood, Meadowdale, Picnic Point, Mountlake Terrace.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 7.1 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 2,100,000× the energy of this one
2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,500,000× 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 7.1 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 4.6 on 2019-07-12 — about 32,000 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 5 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km:

1. 5.4 8 km NNE of Lake Marcel-Stillwater, Washington · 39 km ESE of this epicentre May 3, 1996
2. 5.3 Eastern Olympic Peninsula, Washington · 46 km W of this epicentre Mar 17, 1904
3. 5.2 9 km NE of Lake Marcel-Stillwater, Washington · 42 km ESE of this epicentre Jul 18, 1932
4. 5.0 4 km ENE of Machias, Washington · 34 km ENE of this epicentre May 15, 1954
5. 5.0 3 km WSW of Des Moines, Washington · 49 km S of this epicentre Jan 29, 1995

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 47.8317, -122.3833. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 1.8 2 km ENE of Tracyton, Washington 14:43 UTC
2. 1.8 3 km E of Tracyton, Washington 01:12 UTC
3. 1.8 3 km NNW of Enetai, Washington 21:07 UTC
4. 1.5 2 km NNW of Enetai, Washington 14:52 UTC
5. 2.8 0 km ENE of Tracyton, Washington 13:16 UTC
6. 1.6 2 km NNW of Enetai, Washington 13:41 UTC
7. 1.5 2 km SSW of Monroe, Washington 23:00 UTC
8. 1.6 1 km NE of Enetai, Washington 17:23 UTC
9. 2.3 1 km SW of West Lake Stevens, Washington 21:03 UTC
10. 1.6 2 km NE of Granite Falls, Washington 22:29 UTC
11. 1.5 5 km ESE of Quilcene, Washington 09:29 UTC
12. 1.8 4 km SSW of Port Ludlow, Washington 20:13 UTC
13. 1.8 7 km ENE of Lake Roesiger, Washington 07:53 UTC
14. 1.7 2 km N of Enetai, Washington 00:50 UTC
15. 1.7 2 km E of Tracyton, Washington 05:06 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 11:17 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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