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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

2 km W of Kirkland, Washington

· 28 km deep · released about 8.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kitsap County 31 kmKing County 37 kmSnohomish County 54 kmIsland County 62 kmPierce County 71 kmMason County 79 kmThurston County 94 kmSkagit County 95 kmJefferson County 97 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
28 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kitsap County, 31 km W
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 739 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 8.4 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 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.4 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 47.6840, -122.2385. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kitsap County, WA 31 km (19 mi) E of here earthquakes near Kitsap County
King County, WA 37 km (23 mi) NW of here earthquakes near King County
Snohomish County, WA 54 km (34 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Snohomish County
Island County, WA 62 km (38 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Island County
Pierce County, WA 71 km (44 mi) N of here earthquakes near Pierce County
Mason County, WA 79 km (49 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Mason County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.6 1 km ESE of Inglewood-Finn Hill, Washington
  2. 1.9 2 km E of Tracyton, Washington
  3. 1.8 2 km ENE of Tracyton, Washington
  4. 1.8 3 km E of Tracyton, Washington
  5. 1.8 3 km NNW of Enetai, Washington
  6. 3.3 8 km NNE of Snoqualmie, Washington
  7. 1.5 2 km NNW of Enetai, Washington
  8. 2.8 0 km ENE of Tracyton, Washington
  9. 1.6 2 km NNW of Enetai, Washington
  10. 2.3 1 km NE of Lakeland North, Washington
  11. 2.4 8 km ENE of Fall City, Washington
  12. 3.4 6 km SSE of Lea Hill, Washington
  13. 1.5 2 km SSW of Monroe, Washington
  14. 2.1 7 km ENE of Fall City, Washington
  15. 1.6 1 km NE of Enetai, 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 27,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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