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explosion · reviewed by a seismologist

M 0.7md

12 km SSE of Neah Bay, Washington

· -0.2 km deep · released about 0.35 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Clallam County 53 kmJefferson County 93 kmSan Juan County 112 km
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When
Magnitude
M 0.7 (md)
Depth
-0.2 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Clallam County, 53 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 26 hours ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

USGS catalogues this as explosion, not an earthquake.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 0.35 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 1.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 43,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 31,000,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2,700× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 0.7 about 0.35 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 48.2622, -124.5687. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Clallam County, WA 53 km (33 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Clallam County
Jefferson County, WA 93 km (58 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Jefferson County
San Juan County, WA 112 km (69 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near San Juan County
Mason County, WA 145 km (90 mi) NW of here earthquakes near Mason 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. 0.6 12 km SSE of Neah Bay, 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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