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explosion · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.3md

3 km ESE of Pullman, Washington

· -0.8 km deep · released about 94 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Latah County 32 kmWhitman County 37 kmGarfield County 45 kmNez Perce County 52 kmAsotin County 61 kmBenewah County 67 kmLewis County 76 kmColumbia County 77 kmSpokane County 102 km
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When
Magnitude
M 2.3 (md)
Depth
-0.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Latah County, 32 km ENE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 458 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

USGS catalogues this as explosion, not an earthquake.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 94 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 160,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 110,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 10× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.3 about 94 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 46.7220, -117.1293. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Latah County, ID 32 km (20 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Latah County
Whitman County, WA 37 km (23 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Whitman County
Garfield County, WA 45 km (28 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Nez Perce County, ID 52 km (32 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Nez Perce County
Asotin County, WA 61 km (38 mi) N of here earthquakes near Asotin County
Benewah County, ID 67 km (42 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Benewah County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.3 1 km NW of Asotin, Washington
  2. 2.1 5 km ENE of Pullman, Washington
  3. 2.3 9 km ESE of Princeton, Idaho
  4. 1.7 4 km E of Uniontown, Washington
  5. 2.3 4 km ENE of Pullman, Washington
  6. 1.8 7 km SSW of Tekoa, Washington
  7. 2.3 5 km SSW of Moscow, Idaho
  8. 1.7 6 km WSW of Troy, Idaho
  9. 1.6 8 km SSE of Pullman, Washington
  10. 2.1 2 km SSE of Lewiston Orchards, Idaho
  11. 2.2 8 km SW of Potlatch, Idaho
  12. 2.2 2 km NE of Lewiston Orchards, Idaho
  13. 1.8 14 km E of Pomeroy, Washington
  14. 1.6 10 km ESE of Moscow, Idaho
  15. 1.9 7 km WSW of Deary, Idaho

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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