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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

2 km NE of Echo Lake, Washington

· 25 km deep · released about 10 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Snohomish County 34 kmKing County 38 kmKitsap County 50 kmIsland County 62 kmSkagit County 79 kmPierce County 84 kmMason County 99 kmChelan County 105 kmSan Juan County 112 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
25 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Snohomish County, 34 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 476 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 10 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 1,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 92× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 10 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 47.8017, -122.0292. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Snohomish County, WA 34 km (21 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Snohomish County
King County, WA 38 km (23 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near King County
Kitsap County, WA 50 km (31 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Kitsap County
Island County, WA 62 km (39 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Island County
Skagit County, WA 79 km (49 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Skagit County
Pierce County, WA 84 km (52 mi) N of here earthquakes near Pierce County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.9 1 km WSW of Manchester, Washington
  2. 2.4 10 km NE of Snoqualmie, Washington
  3. 2.0 2 km ENE of Snoqualmie, Washington
  4. 2.0 3 km S of Monroe, Washington
  5. 2.0 6 km SW of Clinton, Washington
  6. 2.1 7 km E of Tanner, Washington
  7. 1.5 4 km NW of Tulalip Bay, Washington
  8. 1.7 9 km NNE of Snoqualmie, Washington
  9. 1.6 2 km SSW of Clinton, Washington
  10. 3.0 4 km ESE of Cathcart, Washington
  11. 1.7 3 km SSW of Clinton, Washington
  12. 2.0 3 km SSW of Clinton, Washington
  13. 1.6 4 km E of Carnation, Washington
  14. 1.6 1 km E of Clyde Hill, Washington
  15. 1.7 11 km NNE 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 22,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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