284 km WNW of Bandon, Oregon

Yes. A magnitude 5.9 earthquake was recorded 284 km WNW of Bandon, Oregon at 15:02 UTC on 2019-09-05, 10 km deep. 61 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

2019-09-05 15:02 UTC · 10 km deep · released about 11 kilotons of TNT

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When: 2019-09-05 15:02 UTC
Magnitude: M 5.9 (mww)
Depth: 10 km below the surface
Felt: 61 reports · strongest reported intensity IV
USGS impact alert: green
Tsunami: USGS flagged this event for tsunami evaluation. Follow tsunami.gov for official messages.
Status: Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS 326 days ago · we first saw it 326 days ago

This was a moderate earthquake. Shaking at this size can damage poorly built structures close to the epicentre.

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 328 km (204 mi) from the epicentre. 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.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 11 kilotons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 6.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

Ridgecrest, California 2019 M 7.1 63× the energy of this one
Loma Prieta, California 1989 M 6.9 32× the energy of this one
Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 16× the energy of this one
This earthquake M 5.9 about 11 kilotons of TNT
Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 this one released 1.4× more
Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 this one released 2× 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 6.3 on 2019-08-29 — about 4 times the energy of this one.

Before 2016, the USGS record since 1900 lists no earthquake of M5 or more within 50 km.

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

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Aftershocks so far

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

3.5 252 km W of Bandon, Oregon 23:38 UTC
3.1 254 km W of Bandon, Oregon 12:04 UTC
3.2 off the coast of Oregon 18:55 UTC
3.4 275 km W of Langlois, Oregon 23:19 UTC
3.0 236 km W of Bandon, Oregon 06:46 UTC
2.5 282 km W of Langlois, Oregon 11:56 UTC
2.9 277 km W of Langlois, Oregon 10:02 UTC
2.6 253 km W of Langlois, Oregon 13:43 UTC
2.8 off the coast of Oregon 22:24 UTC
3.2 258 km W of Bandon, Oregon 11:42 UTC
2.9 257 km W of Bandon, Oregon 07:42 UTC
3.3 off the coast of Oregon 01:18 UTC
4.3 off the coast of Oregon 08:16 UTC
4.1 331 km W of Bandon, Oregon 06:48 UTC
3.4 271 km W of Bandon, Oregon 08:47 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 13:54 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

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