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explosion · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.6ml

2 km SW of Port Ludlow, Washington

· -0.0 km deep · released about 8.4 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Island County 28 kmKitsap County 30 kmJefferson County 62 kmMason County 71 kmSnohomish County 72 kmSan Juan County 73 kmKing County 80 kmClallam County 91 kmSkagit County 93 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
-0.0 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Island County, 28 km N
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 251 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 8.4 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 110× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 8.4 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 47.9098, -122.7105. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Island County, WA 28 km (17 mi) S of here earthquakes near Island County
Kitsap County, WA 30 km (19 mi) N of here earthquakes near Kitsap County
Jefferson County, WA 62 km (39 mi) E of here earthquakes near Jefferson County
Mason County, WA 71 km (44 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Mason County
Snohomish County, WA 72 km (45 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Snohomish County
San Juan County, WA 73 km (45 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near San Juan County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.1 6 km ENE of Bell Hill, Washington
  2. 1.6 2 km ESE of Oak Harbor, Washington
  3. 1.6 8 km S of Port Hadlock-Irondale, Washington
  4. 1.7 2 km NNW of Enetai, Washington
  5. 2.5 11 km SSW of River Road, Washington
  6. 1.6 2 km E of Oak Harbor, Washington
  7. 1.6 5 km SSE of Quilcene, Washington
  8. 2.1 3 km E of Oak Harbor, Washington
  9. 1.7 3 km E of Oak Harbor, Washington
  10. 2.1 3 km ESE of Oak Harbor, Washington
  11. 2.1 3 km E of Oak Harbor, Washington
  12. 1.9 4 km E of Port Townsend, Washington
  13. 1.5 5 km ENE of Belfair, 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 10,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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