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M 4.3mb

184 km W of Bandon, Oregon

· 10 km deep · released about 43 tons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 4.3 (mb)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
5 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2228 days ago

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 5 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 43 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.3 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 4,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 180× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 4.3 about 43 tons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 89× more

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 43.3681, -126.6550. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.5 176 km WNW of Port Orford, Oregon
  2. 2.7 195 km W of Langlois, Oregon
  3. 2.5 217 km W of Langlois, Oregon
  4. 4.0 170 km W of Langlois, Oregon
  5. 2.5 171 km WNW of Port Orford, Oregon
  6. 2.6 164 km WNW of Port Orford, Oregon
  7. 2.5 203 km W of Port Orford, Oregon
  8. 3.0 184 km W of Bandon, Oregon
  9. 2.9 201 km W of Langlois, Oregon
  10. 4.1 222 km WNW of Bandon, Oregon
  11. 4.0 203 km W of Bandon, Oregon
  12. 2.9 202 km W of Langlois, Oregon
  13. 3.9 161 km WNW of Port Orford, Oregon
  14. 2.6 224 km W of Bandon, Oregon
  15. 4.4 off the coast of 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 63 times the energy of this one.

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

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