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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

14 km SW of Cowichan Bay, Canada

· 24 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N San Juan County 50 kmClallam County 60 kmJefferson County 94 kmIsland County 96 km
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
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
24 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
San Juan County, 50 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 30 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 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 970,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 86× 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 48.6408, -123.7487. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
San Juan County, WA 50 km (31 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near San Juan County
Clallam County, WA 60 km (37 mi) N of here earthquakes near Clallam County
Jefferson County, WA 94 km (59 mi) N of here earthquakes near Jefferson County
Island County, WA 96 km (60 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Island County
Kitsap County, WA 138 km (86 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Kitsap County

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

Aftershocks so far

1 earthquake has been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 1.8 3 km WNW of Ladysmith, Canada

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.

On USGS

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