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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

3 km SSE of Issaquah, Washington

· 8.3 km deep · released about 8.1 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N King County 14 kmKitsap County 50 kmPierce County 51 kmSnohomish County 64 kmThurston County 88 kmIsland County 88 kmMason County 89 kmLewis County 106 kmKittitas County 109 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
8.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
King County, 14 km E
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 675 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 8.1 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 1,900,000× 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 3.0 120× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.1 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.

Where

Epicentre 47.5010, -122.0142. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
King County, WA 14 km (8 mi) W of here earthquakes near King County
Kitsap County, WA 50 km (31 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Kitsap County
Pierce County, WA 51 km (32 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Pierce County
Snohomish County, WA 64 km (40 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Snohomish County
Thurston County, WA 88 km (55 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Thurston County
Island County, WA 88 km (55 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

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

  1. 1.7 7 km ENE of Manchester, Washington
  2. 2.1 4 km E of Enumclaw, Washington
  3. 1.5 2 km ENE of Woods Creek, Washington
  4. 1.9 7 km S of Woods Creek, Washington
  5. 1.7 2 km NE of Echo Lake, Washington
  6. 1.7 3 km NNE of Dash Point, Washington
  7. 2.8 4 km N of Echo Lake, Washington
  8. 1.6 1 km NNW of Boulevard Park, Washington
  9. 2.1 0 km NNW of Esperance, Washington
  10. 1.8 1 km NNW of Maple Valley, Washington
  11. 1.6 1 km SW of Burien, Washington
  12. 1.8 8 km ESE of Carbonado, Washington
  13. 1.8 8 km NE of Fall City, Washington
  14. 2.4 10 km NNE of Snoqualmie, Washington
  15. 1.7 9 km ENE of Snoqualmie, 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 28,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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