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explosion · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

18 km E of West Side Highway, Washington

· -0.6 km deep · released about 10 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Cowlitz County 1 kmColumbia County 42 kmLewis County 49 kmClark County 49 kmSkamania County 59 kmWahkiakum County 59 kmMultnomah County 74 kmWashington County 78 kmClatsop County 82 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
-0.6 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Cowlitz County, 1 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 348 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 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 46.1925, -122.6735. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Cowlitz County, WA 1 km (0 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Cowlitz County
Columbia County, OR 42 km (26 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Columbia County
Lewis County, WA 49 km (30 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Lewis County
Clark County, WA 49 km (30 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Clark County
Skamania County, WA 59 km (36 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Skamania County
Wahkiakum County, WA 59 km (37 mi) E of here earthquakes near Wahkiakum 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. 1.7 20 km E of Castle Rock, Washington
  2. 1.7 6 km W of Mossyrock, Washington
  3. 3.8 20 km E of Castle Rock, Washington
  4. 1.6 32 km N of Amboy, Washington
  5. 1.8 4 km WSW of Yacolt, Washington
  6. 1.8 27 km N of Amboy, Washington
  7. 2.1 4 km W of Yacolt, Washington
  8. 1.8 3 km E of Kalama, Washington
  9. 2.3 37 km NNE of Amboy, Washington
  10. 1.5 3 km WSW of Kalama, Washington
  11. 1.6 2 km NE of Lewisville, Washington
  12. 2.6 18 km NE of Amboy, Washington
  13. 1.5 37 km NNE of Amboy, Washington
  14. 1.6 20 km E of Castle Rock, Washington
  15. 1.6 38 km NE of Amboy, 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.

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