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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 2.7ml

49 km NNE of Enterprise, Oregon

· 3.4 km deep · released about 340 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Wallowa County 30 kmAsotin County 43 kmNez Perce County 59 kmLewis County 63 kmGarfield County 79 kmColumbia County 88 kmUnion County 98 kmLatah County 112 kmAdams County 114 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 2.7 (ml)
Depth
3.4 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Wallowa County, 30 km SSW
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2910 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 340 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 45,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 32,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 2.8× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.7 about 340 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 45.8288, -116.9943. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Wallowa County, OR 30 km (19 mi) NNE of here earthquakes near Wallowa County
Asotin County, WA 43 km (27 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Asotin County
Nez Perce County, ID 59 km (37 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Nez Perce County
Lewis County, ID 63 km (39 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Lewis County
Garfield County, WA 79 km (49 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Garfield County
Columbia County, WA 88 km (54 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Columbia County

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

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 40 km WNW of White Bird, Idaho
  2. 1.6 16 km SSW of Sweetwater, Idaho

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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