Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist
M 1.6ml
11 km SE of Desert Aire, Washington
- When
- Magnitude
- M 1.6 (ml)
- Depth
- 7.8 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Benton County, 48 km SSE
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 529 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 7.3 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.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,100,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,500,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.3 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 46.6180, -119.7977. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benton County, WA | 48 km (30 mi) | NNW of here | earthquakes near Benton County |
| Franklin County, WA | 69 km (43 mi) | W of here | earthquakes near Franklin County |
| Grant County, WA | 71 km (44 mi) | SSW of here | earthquakes near Grant County |
| Yakima County, WA | 74 km (46 mi) | ENE of here | earthquakes near Yakima County |
| Kittitas County, WA | 87 km (54 mi) | SE of here | earthquakes near Kittitas County |
| Adams County, WA | 107 km (67 mi) | WSW of here | earthquakes near Adams County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
3 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 2.0 20 km SW of Desert Aire, Washington
- 1.8 3 km SSW of West Richland, Washington
- 1.7 24 km E of Desert Aire, 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.
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
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- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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