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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.5ml

4 km ESE of Cathcart, Washington

· 21 km deep · released about 5.9 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Snohomish County 32 kmKing County 41 kmKitsap County 50 kmIsland County 59 kmSkagit County 75 kmPierce County 88 kmMason County 100 kmChelan County 106 kmSan Juan County 108 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.5 (ml)
Depth
21 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Snohomish County, 32 km NE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 96 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.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,500,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,800,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 160× the energy of this one
  4. 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

Epicentre 47.8353, -122.0442. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Snohomish County, WA 32 km (20 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Snohomish County
King County, WA 41 km (26 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near King County
Kitsap County, WA 50 km (31 mi) ENE of here earthquakes near Kitsap County
Island County, WA 59 km (37 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Island County
Skagit County, WA 75 km (47 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Skagit County
Pierce County, WA 88 km (54 mi) N of here earthquakes near Pierce County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.7 2 km E of Granite Falls, Washington
  2. 1.2 1 km NW of Lake Marcel-Stillwater, Washington
  3. 1.7 0 km W of Lake Stickney, Washington
  4. 2.1 10 km ENE of Fall City, Washington
  5. 1.0 5 km WSW of Wilderness Rim, Washington
  6. 2.4 5 km SW of Wilderness Rim, Washington
  7. 1.1 2 km NW of Lake Marcel-Stillwater, Washington
  8. 0.8 4 km E of Carnation, Washington
  9. 2.0 3 km ESE of East Renton Highlands, Washington
  10. 0.5 2 km S of Union Hill-Novelty Hill, Washington
  11. 2.1 4 km SW of Wilderness Rim, Washington
  12. 2.1 4 km NNE of Snoqualmie, Washington
  13. 1.6 1 km NNE of Maple Valley, Washington
  14. 1.7 2 km NNE of May Creek, Washington
  15. 1.5 5 km SSW of Monroe, 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 4.6 on 2019-07-12 — it released about 38,000 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

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