198 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon

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 680 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 3.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 22,000× the energy of this one
2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 16,000× the energy of this one
3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 1.4× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 2.9 about 680 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 41.9184, -126.7427. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

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

1. 2.6 195 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon 13:00 UTC
2. 2.6 199 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon 04:14 UTC
3. 2.9 207 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon 06:42 UTC
4. 2.6 186 km W of Pistol River, Oregon 17:59 UTC
5. 2.9 231 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon 22:57 UTC
6. 2.7 199 km W of Pistol River, Oregon 15:08 UTC
7. 3.4 233 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon 05:31 UTC
8. 3.1 204 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon 08:15 UTC
9. 2.9 189 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon 05:28 UTC
10. 3.5 155 km W of Pistol River, Oregon 05:27 UTC
11. 3.2 210 km WSW of Pistol River, Oregon 05:26 UTC
12. 2.5 185 km W of Gold Beach, Oregon 04:44 UTC
13. 2.5 184 km WSW of Port Orford, Oregon 12:00 UTC
14. 2.6 179 km W of Gold Beach, Oregon 11:08 UTC
15. 2.6 184 km WSW of Port Orford, Oregon 08:39 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 18:30 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 5.6 on 2018-07-24 — it released about 11,000 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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