139 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon

This was a light earthquake. It is usually felt clearly nearby and can rattle windows and dishes, but damage is uncommon. 3 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 15 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 5.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 11,000× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 500× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 350× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 4.0 about 15 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 32× 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 41.8956, -126.0050. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 2.0 126 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon 18:02 UTC
2. 2.7 137 km W of Gold Beach, Oregon 00:42 UTC
3. 2.5 152 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon 19:35 UTC
4. 5.7 143 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon 10:53 UTC
5. 2.1 140 km W of Crescent City, California 05:58 UTC
6. 3.7 145 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon 04:26 UTC
7. 3.5 155 km W of Pistol River, Oregon 05:27 UTC
8. 2.1 134 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon 08:20 UTC
9. 2.9 147 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon 00:12 UTC
10. 2.9 144 km W of Pistol River, Oregon 01:06 UTC
11. 2.7 119 km W of Pistol River, Oregon 17:54 UTC
12. 2.9 184 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon 17:32 UTC
13. 2.6 155 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon 12:33 UTC
14. 2.3 136 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon 13:19 UTC
15. 5.1 169 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon 03:04 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 19:04 UTC. 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 5.9 on 2021-06-04 — it released about 710 times the energy of this one.

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

On USGS

• The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
• Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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