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M 3.0ml

off the coast of Oregon

· 10 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 3.0 (ml)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2880 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 950 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 950 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 43.2636, -127.0032. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.8 180 km WNW of Port Orford, Oregon
  2. 3.5 247 km W of Port Orford, Oregon
  3. 2.8 181 km W of Port Orford, Oregon
  4. 3.0 237 km W of Bandon, Oregon
  5. 3.9 191 km W of Bandon, Oregon
  6. 2.8 188 km W of Langlois, Oregon
  7. 2.9 189 km W of Port Orford, Oregon
  8. 3.2 218 km W of Bandon, Oregon
  9. 3.2 230 km W of Bandon, Oregon
  10. 3.0 204 km W of Langlois, Oregon
  11. 3.2 207 km W of Langlois, Oregon
  12. 3.0 186 km W of Port Orford, Oregon
  13. 3.4 236 km W of Langlois, Oregon
  14. 2.5 off the coast of Oregon
  15. 3.0 195 km W of Bandon, Oregon

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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 5.5 on 2016-11-28 — it released about 5,600 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

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