6 km E of Queets, Washington

2026-05-15 05:54 UTC · 24 km deep · released about 5.9 lb of TNT

Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.

When: 2026-05-15 05:54 UTC
Magnitude: M 1.5 (ml)
Depth: 24 km below the surface
Felt: no reports yet
Nearest: Grays Harbor County, 57 km SE
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 135 days ago · we first saw it 135 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.

Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,500,000× the energy of this one
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,800,000× the energy of this one
Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 160× the energy of this one
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

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Epicentre 47.5382, -124.2485. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

Place	Distance	Direction
Grays Harbor County, WA	57 km (35 mi)	NW of here	earthquakes near Grays Harbor County
Jefferson County, WA	62 km (38 mi)	WSW of here	earthquakes near Jefferson County
Clallam County, WA	69 km (43 mi)	SSW of here	earthquakes near Clallam County
Mason County, WA	84 km (52 mi)	WNW of here	earthquakes near Mason County
Pacific County, WA	115 km (71 mi)	NNW of here	earthquakes near Pacific County
Thurston County, WA	126 km (78 mi)	WNW of here	earthquakes near Thurston County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1.6 16 km NNW of Queets, Washington 22:05 UTC
1.7 12 km S of Forks, Washington 03:06 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 05:49 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

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