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M 3.0ml

4 km SE of Rose Lodge, Oregon

· 44 km deep · released about 950 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Polk County 36 kmLincoln County 39 kmYamhill County 50 kmTillamook County 52 kmBenton County 64 kmWashington County 85 kmMarion County 100 kmClatsop County 116 kmLinn County 117 km
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When
Magnitude
M 3.0 (ml)
Depth
44 km below the surface
Felt
41 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Measured shaking
intensity II (ShakeMap)
Nearest
Polk County, 36 km ESE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2697 days ago

This was a small earthquake. Shaking like this is often felt indoors nearby and very rarely causes damage. 41 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 950 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 4.0 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 350,000× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 16,000× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 11,000× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 3.0 about 950 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 44.9888, -123.8375. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Polk County, OR 36 km (22 mi) WNW of here earthquakes near Polk County
Lincoln County, OR 39 km (24 mi) N of here earthquakes near Lincoln County
Yamhill County, OR 50 km (31 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Yamhill County
Tillamook County, OR 52 km (32 mi) S of here earthquakes near Tillamook County
Benton County, OR 64 km (40 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Benton County
Washington County, OR 85 km (53 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Washington County

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

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

  1. 1.5 6 km W of Dallas, Oregon
  2. 1.9 5 km NE of Lincoln Beach, Oregon
  3. 1.7 17 km W of Falls City, Oregon
  4. 1.6 9 km NNE of Sheridan, Oregon
  5. 1.9 10 km NNE of Sheridan, Oregon
  6. 1.8 11 km E of Lincoln Beach, Oregon
  7. 1.6 7 km SE of Fort Hill, Oregon
  8. 2.0 19 km W of Falls City, Oregon
  9. 1.7 13 km N of Willamina, Oregon
  10. 2.4 10 km N of Sheridan, Oregon
  11. 1.7 11 km WNW of Beaver, Oregon
  12. 1.9 12 km E of Toledo, Oregon
  13. 1.7 6 km WNW of Dallas, Oregon
  14. 1.6 Oregon
  15. 1.7 21 km W of Pacific City, 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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