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M 1.7ml

10 km ESE of Riverbend, Washington

· 13 km deep · released about 11 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N King County 17 kmPierce County 58 kmSnohomish County 71 kmKittitas County 79 kmKitsap County 81 kmChelan County 89 kmThurston County 106 kmLewis County 110 kmIsland County 113 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
13 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
King County, 17 km WNW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 11 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 47.4262, -121.6225. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
King County, WA 17 km (11 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near King County
Pierce County, WA 58 km (36 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Pierce County
Snohomish County, WA 71 km (44 mi) S of here earthquakes near Snohomish County
Kittitas County, WA 79 km (49 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Kittitas County
Kitsap County, WA 81 km (50 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Kitsap County
Chelan County, WA 89 km (56 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Chelan County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.2 1 km NW of Lake Marcel-Stillwater, Washington
  2. 2.1 10 km ENE of Fall City, Washington
  3. 1.0 5 km WSW of Wilderness Rim, Washington
  4. 2.4 5 km SW of Wilderness Rim, Washington
  5. 1.1 2 km NW of Lake Marcel-Stillwater, Washington
  6. 0.8 4 km E of Carnation, Washington
  7. 2.0 3 km ESE of East Renton Highlands, Washington
  8. 0.5 2 km S of Union Hill-Novelty Hill, Washington
  9. 2.1 4 km SW of Wilderness Rim, 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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