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M 2.1ml

24 km N of Amboy, Washington

· 17 km deep · released about 49 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Cowlitz County 16 kmClark County 40 kmSkamania County 44 kmColumbia County 49 kmLewis County 51 kmMultnomah County 65 kmWahkiakum County 74 kmWashington County 79 kmThurston County 93 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.1 (ml)
Depth
17 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Cowlitz County, 16 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 596 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 49 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 310,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 220,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 19× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.1 about 49 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 46.1273, -122.5002. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Cowlitz County, WA 16 km (10 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Cowlitz County
Clark County, WA 40 km (25 mi) N of here earthquakes near Clark County
Skamania County, WA 44 km (27 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Skamania County
Columbia County, OR 49 km (31 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Columbia County
Lewis County, WA 51 km (32 mi) S of here earthquakes near Lewis County
Multnomah County, OR 65 km (40 mi) N of here earthquakes near Multnomah County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 5 km SSE of Yacolt, Washington
  2. 1.9 21 km SSE of Mossyrock, Washington
  3. 1.7 25 km S of Morton, Washington
  4. 1.5 10 km NE of Castle Rock, Washington
  5. 1.6 7 km NE of Castle Rock, Washington
  6. 1.7 41 km SSE of Morton, Washington
  7. 1.7 10 km NE of Castle Rock, Washington
  8. 2.1 18 km N of Amboy, Washington
  9. 1.9 2 km WNW of Saint Helens, Oregon
  10. 2.0 37 km NNE of Amboy, Washington
  11. 1.6 5 km NNE of Venersborg, Washington
  12. 1.8 31 km ENE of Yacolt, Washington
  13. 1.5 10 km SSE of Toledo, Washington
  14. 1.5 4 km ESE of Mossyrock, Washington
  15. 1.8 7 km ESE of Mossyrock, 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.

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