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M 1.7ml

13 km WSW of Neah Bay, Washington

· -0.2 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
-0.2 km below the surface
Felt
1 report
Nearest
Clallam County, 70 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 497 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 12 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 870,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 78× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 48.3115, -124.7842. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Clallam County, WA 70 km (43 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Clallam County
Jefferson County, WA 109 km (68 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Jefferson County
Mason County, WA 161 km (100 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Mason County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 0.6 12 km SSE of Neah Bay, Washington
  2. 0.7 12 km SSE of Neah Bay, Washington
  3. 1.6 39 km NNW of Neah Bay, Washington
  4. 1.5 19 km NNW of Forks, Washington
  5. 2.1 26 km W of Forks, Washington
  6. 2.3 33 km NNW of Neah Bay, Washington
  7. 2.5 23 km W of Neah Bay, Washington
  8. 1.6 12 km SW of Neah Bay, Washington
  9. 1.6 7 km WNW of Neah Bay, Washington
  10. 1.8 10 km N of Neah Bay, Washington
  11. 1.9 28 km WSW of Neah Bay, Washington
  12. 1.6 33 km NNW of Neah Bay, Washington
  13. 1.8 10 km WNW of Neah Bay, Washington
  14. 1.6 4 km WSW of Forks, Washington
  15. 3.7 17 km NNW of Sekiu, 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 4.5 on 2020-01-24 — it released about 14,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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