Earthquake near Yacolt, WA

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

At this magnitude and depth it was probably too small to be felt, even directly above it. Estimated from magnitude, depth and distance with the intensity equation USGS Did You Feel It? uses; felt reports, where there are any, are the measurement.

Earthquakes near other towns within 30 km: Amboy.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 0.92 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000,000× the energy of this one
2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 12,000,000× the energy of this one
3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1,000× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 1.0 about 0.92 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.

For this area

No earthquake of M4 or more has been recorded within 50 km since our catalogue begins in 2016.

Before 2016, the USGS record lists 16 earthquakes of M5 or more within 50 km; the five largest:

1. 5.7 38 km NNE of Amboy, Washington · 24 km NNW of this epicentre May 18, 1980
2. 5.2 37 km NNE of Amboy, Washington · 23 km NNW of this epicentre Apr 14, 1980
3. 5.2 23 km S of Morton, Washington · 40 km NNW of this epicentre Feb 14, 1981
4. 5.1 28 km ENE of Amboy, Washington · 3 km NW of this epicentre Sep 17, 1961
5. 5.1 Washington · 25 km NNW of this epicentre Apr 3, 1980

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre 46.0042, -122.1013. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

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

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 0.4 38 km NNE of Amboy, Washington 19:25 UTC
2. 0.1 38 km NE of Amboy, Washington 18:59 UTC
3. -0.1 38 km NNE of Amboy, Washington 16:31 UTC
4. 0.4 37 km NNE of Amboy, Washington 05:34 UTC
5. 0.5 37 km SSE of Morton, Washington 02:04 UTC
6. 0.4 16 km NNE of Amboy, Washington 20:47 UTC
7. 1.7 24 km S of Morton, Washington 10:34 UTC
8. 0.5 20 km ESE of Castle Rock, Washington 06:56 UTC
9. 0.2 38 km NNE of Amboy, Washington 14:45 UTC
10. 1.6 4 km E of Lewisville, Washington 23:25 UTC
11. -0.1 37 km NNE of Amboy, Washington 21:09 UTC
12. 0.5 37 km NNE of Amboy, Washington 07:52 UTC
13. -0.1 38 km NNE of Amboy, Washington 10:40 UTC
14. 0.8 38 km NNE of Amboy, Washington 06:06 UTC
15. 0.2 38 km NNE of Amboy, Washington 03:37 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 11:22 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

Revisions

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On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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