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M 1.7ml

25 km S of Morton, Washington

· 7.3 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
7.3 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Lewis County, 30 km NNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 172 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 12 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 1,200,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 870,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 78× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 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 46.3265, -122.2363. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Lewis County, WA 30 km (19 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Lewis County
Cowlitz County, WA 37 km (23 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Cowlitz County
Skamania County, WA 40 km (25 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Skamania County
Clark County, WA 65 km (40 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Clark County
Columbia County, OR 78 km (48 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Columbia County
Pierce County, WA 81 km (50 mi) S of here earthquakes near Pierce County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.3 20 km E of Castle Rock, Washington
  2. 0.2 37 km NNE of Amboy, Washington
  3. 0.5 38 km NNE of Amboy, Washington
  4. 0.7 5 km SSW of Morton, Washington
  5. 1.0 4 km WSW of Mineral, Washington
  6. 0.6 38 km NNE of Amboy, Washington
  7. 1.7 18 km N of Amboy, Washington
  8. 0.3 32 km NE of Amboy, Washington
  9. 0.7 21 km ESE of Castle Rock, Washington
  10. 1.1 5 km SW of Morton, Washington
  11. 1.5 5 km SSW of Morton, Washington
  12. 1.3 38 km NNE of Amboy, Washington
  13. 1.0 32 km NNE of Amboy, Washington
  14. 0.9 20 km E of Castle Rock, Washington
  15. 0.6 21 km ESE of Castle Rock, 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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