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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

1 km NE of Esperance, Washington

· 24 km deep · released about 5.9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Kitsap County 29 kmIsland County 47 kmSnohomish County 51 kmKing County 51 kmMason County 80 kmPierce County 85 kmSkagit County 86 kmJefferson County 89 kmSan Juan County 97 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
24 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Kitsap County, 29 km SW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 339 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 5.9 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 160× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.5 about 5.9 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 47.8012, -122.3372. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Kitsap County, WA 29 km (18 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Kitsap County
Island County, WA 47 km (29 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Island County
Snohomish County, WA 51 km (32 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Snohomish County
King County, WA 51 km (32 mi) NW of here earthquakes near King County
Mason County, WA 80 km (50 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Mason County
Pierce County, WA 85 km (53 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

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

  1. 1.6 8 km ENE of Duvall, Washington
  2. 1.5 1 km E of Edmonds, Washington
  3. 1.6 4 km S of Monroe, Washington
  4. 1.5 2 km WNW of Arlington, Washington
  5. 1.6 3 km NE of Lake Marcel-Stillwater, Washington
  6. 1.8 4 km NE of Woods Creek, Washington
  7. 2.0 1 km SE of Fairwood, Washington
  8. 1.7 3 km E of Mirrormont, Washington
  9. 2.1 6 km NNW of Lofall, Washington
  10. 1.7 5 km NE of Hobart, Washington
  11. 2.2 5 km E of Mirrormont, Washington
  12. 1.5 2 km ENE of Granite Falls, Washington
  13. 1.7 6 km NNW of North Sultan, Washington
  14. 1.8 1 km S of Shoreline, Washington
  15. 1.6 2 km W of Port Townsend, 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 38,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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