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M 2.5ml

116 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon

Yes. A magnitude 2.5 earthquake was recorded 116 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon, at 9:42 pm PST on 28 November 2023 (05:42 UTC), 10 km deep. 4 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

· 10 km deep · released about 170 lb of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 2.5 (ml)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
4 reports · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest mapped fault
Blanco transform fault, 5 km from its surface trace — near is not the same as on
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1011 days ago

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

At this magnitude and depth, people at rest would likely notice it out to about 20 km (12 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 170 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 89,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 63,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 5.6× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 2.5 about 170 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km since 2016 was M 5.9 on 2021-06-04 — about 130,000 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

Epicentre 42.0054, -125.7580. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 2.0 126 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon
  2. 4.1 116 km W of Gold Beach, Oregon
  3. 4.9 125 km WSW of Port Orford, Oregon
  4. 2.7 137 km W of Gold Beach, Oregon
  5. 2.5 152 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon
  6. 5.7 143 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon
  7. 2.5 132 km WSW of Port Orford, Oregon
  8. 2.1 140 km W of Crescent City, California
  9. 2.7 91 km W of Brookings, OR
  10. 3.7 145 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon
  11. 3.5 155 km W of Pistol River, Oregon
  12. 2.1 134 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon
  13. 2.9 147 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon
  14. 2.9 144 km W of Pistol River, Oregon
  15. 2.7 119 km W of Pistol River, 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.

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