M1.7 Earthquake near North Creek, United States — 05 April 2025, 04:06 UTC

Micro earthquakes are almost never felt at the surface and are recorded only by seismographs.

A magnitude 1.7 earthquake radiates roughly 5.4 kg of TNT equivalent in seismic energy.

The USGS assigns this earthquake a significance score of 44, which is below the USGS threshold of more than 600 for its significant-earthquake list. The ranking combines magnitude with available Did You Feel It responses and PAGER alert level; it is not a direct measurement of damage.

That is about 23:09 local solar time at the epicentre, late at night.

This event was deeper than 55% of the 154,184 earthquakes recorded in the United States in our catalogue and stronger than 68% of them.

The epicentre was located at 43.6916, -74.0938 — 8 km west of North Creek. The closest other recorded event was a magnitude 2.1 earthquake 72 km south-southeast of here on 29 August 2025.

The nearest other settlements in our records are Newcomb (19 km north), Milton (72 km south-southeast), Keeseville (102 km north-northeast) and Saint Regis Falls (119 km north-northwest).

At 7 km this was a shallow earthquake. Shallow events release their energy close to the surface, so for a given magnitude they produce noticeably stronger shaking — and more damage — than deeper ones. Roughly three quarters of all earthquakes worldwide occur at shallow depths.

This catalogue does not ingest eyewitness responses, so it cannot confirm where this earthquake was felt. Based on magnitude alone, events this small are usually detected by instruments rather than people. Its shallow focus makes stronger surface shaking more likely than for a deeper event of the same magnitude.

The USGS record does not carry a link to NOAA tsunami information. That field is not an all-clear and does not state whether a tsunami occurred. In this case, a damaging tsunami would be less likely because at M1.7 it falls below the magnitude 6.5 threshold that generally applies before a submarine earthquake displaces enough water to generate a damaging tsunami; it occurred inland rather than beneath the sea floor. For an active coastal alert, use tsunami.gov or your local warning authority.

No further earthquakes have been recorded within about 150 km of the epicentre in the seven days after this event.

0 earthquakes of magnitude 4 or above have been logged within roughly 200 km of this epicentre in our catalogue. The strongest was a magnitude 2.6 event near Chazy on 14 October 2025. This M1.7 event released about 22 times less energy than that event.

1 earthquakes have been recorded within 100 km of this epicentre in the past year, 0 of them in the past 30 days.

This earthquake is part of the April 2025 worldwide record, and of earthquakes in the United States during April 2025. Browse the full monthly archive to compare periods.