Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist
M 0.3ml
12 km NNE of Ashford, Washington
- When
- Magnitude
- M 0.3 (ml)
- Depth
- 9.6 km below the surface
- Felt
- no reports yet
- Nearest
- Pierce County, 27 km NW
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 23 hours 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 0.088 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 1.3 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 170,000,000× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 120,000,000× the energy of this one
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 11,000× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 0.3 about 0.088 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 46.8555, -121.9440. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Nearby places
| Place | Distance | Direction | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pierce County, WA | 27 km (17 mi) | SE of here | earthquakes near Pierce County |
| Lewis County, WA | 45 km (28 mi) | NE of here | earthquakes near Lewis County |
| Thurston County, WA | 68 km (42 mi) | E of here | earthquakes near Thurston County |
| King County, WA | 71 km (44 mi) | S of here | earthquakes near King County |
| Cowlitz County, WA | 92 km (57 mi) | NE of here | earthquakes near Cowlitz County |
| Skamania County, WA | 92 km (57 mi) | N of here | earthquakes near Skamania County |
Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.
Aftershocks so far
4 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
- 0.3 11 km SSE of Carbonado, Washington
- 0.3 18 km SSE of Carbonado, Washington
- 0.7 5 km SSW of Morton, Washington
- 0.1 20 km SE of Carbonado, 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.
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
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- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
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