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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

8 km NNW of Freeland, Washington

· 14 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
14 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Island County, 11 km NW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 264 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 11 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 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 930,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 83× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 11 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 48.0807, -122.5765. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Island County, WA 11 km (7 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Island County
Kitsap County, WA 49 km (31 mi) N of here earthquakes near Kitsap County
Snohomish County, WA 60 km (38 mi) W of here earthquakes near Snohomish County
San Juan County, WA 61 km (38 mi) SE of here earthquakes near San Juan County
Skagit County, WA 73 km (45 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Skagit County
Jefferson County, WA 77 km (48 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Jefferson County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 0 km W of Lake Stickney, Washington
  2. 2.1 6 km ENE of Bell Hill, Washington
  3. 1.6 3 km WSW of Lake Cavanaugh, Washington
  4. 2.6 2 km ENE of Mount Vernon, Washington
  5. 1.6 2 km ESE of Oak Harbor, Washington
  6. 1.6 8 km S of Port Hadlock-Irondale, Washington
  7. 1.6 2 km E of Oak Harbor, Washington
  8. 1.6 5 km SSE of Quilcene, Washington
  9. 2.1 3 km E of Oak Harbor, Washington
  10. 1.7 3 km E of Oak Harbor, Washington
  11. 2.1 3 km ESE of Oak Harbor, Washington
  12. 2.1 3 km E of Oak Harbor, Washington
  13. 1.9 4 km E of Port Townsend, Washington
  14. 1.8 2 km ESE of Oak Harbor, Washington
  15. 1.9 3 km E of Oak Harbor, 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 4.3 on 2023-10-09 — it released about 7,700 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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